Imagine if you were a bride and your husband to be wants somne stranger with suspect credentials officiating your wedding because it will help him at work.

I’m beginning to think Stan’s personality may get in the way of his performance as Senate leader.

Tough to respect a guy who sells out his wedding for a poilitcal headline.

(man have been in a bad mood this week.)

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/stan-rosenbergs-cheapens-gay-marriage-with-karyn-polito-officiating/feed/0Question For All Us Feminists: Should Michelle Wu Bring Baby to City Hall Meetings?http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/question-for-all-us-feminists-should-michelle-wu-bring-baby-to-city-hall-meetings/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/question-for-all-us-feminists-should-michelle-wu-bring-baby-to-city-hall-meetings/#commentsMon, 30 Mar 2015 19:05:46 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=76802First Rule of this argument: Let’s assume everyone has had a kid, knows someone who’s has a kid, or has at least one parent who’s had a kid. Okay? Nobody has cornered the market on parenting.

A picture of Michelle Wu with her beautiful sleeping baby in in front of her on her desk at a council hearing was tweeted out today.

Very cute and yes I question the photo-op/using-baby-as-prop-for-political-gain (do you know how many kids have been raised in city hall and kept out of the chamber for meetings?).

I got jumped on when I questioned this in a twitter reply.

But let’s use this to discuss the bigger issue.

I am sorry to tell my fellow feminists but there is a difference between the male and female and this is where we see it. Michelle is a mother. Michael Flaherty is a father. He leaves the house and I bet doesn’t obsess about his kids that day. Will they make the dentist appointment, will they make it to the bus on time, do they have money for the field trip, are they dressed warm enough.

Yes the dad thought about it and yes he cares but in reality, he doesn’t care once he leaves the house. Until the mother calls and texts every half hour and reminds him.

Now I also bet that Councilor Flaherty or other recent male city councilors who had kids during their tenure went to work soon after the birth and really didn’t worry too much about who was watching the baby. Wife/mother-in-law/daycare. Who cares? The kid’s safe and by safe I mean the mother is happy where the kid is. That is all that matters to most dads. What does mom say? Peace and quiet my friends, peace and quiet. Think of that come Father’s Day

Not so with the mother of a child. That’s why we see young mothers struggle with work. Their minds are on the baby. Like Michelle’s.

So if us feminists would admit that when it comes to mothering no one can do it like a mother and no one knows what it is like to worry like a mother.

I believe that. And if feminists will accept it then I see no reason why Michelle shouldn’t worry and act like a mother. Let all mothers do what they have to do. Men will respect it. They had mothers.

But really if we saw Michael Flaherty in a hearing with a baby we would lose respect for him. And rightfully so.

But if us feminists want to keep insisting that mothers and dads are exactly alike then I say, ‘screw you, the kid doesn’t belong there. Shows total disrespect to the council and the people appearing before it. The subject matter and the tax payers deserve her full attention.’

Of course I am right on this, right?

BTW I’m glad I didn’t have business important to me in front of the council today. I’d be trying to make a point to a city councillor with her infant child on her desk and she’s babysitting.

What the father of the child? Aren’t we equal here? Why doesn’t he bring the kid to work?

Oh, he is not the mother. So there is a difference?

Hmmmm.just waht are the femists saying? We are all equal until it doesn’benfit the woman?

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/question-for-all-us-feminists-should-michelle-wu-bring-baby-to-city-hall-meetings/feed/21Dan Conley Is Lying To Public About Prosecutorial Discretion. He is Dangerous Man and Needs to be Replaced. (Plus He’s Stupid. Really Stupid. Makes Him More Dangerous To The Public)http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/search-and-avoid-dan-conley-trying-to-bamboozle-public-while-chief-justice-raph-gants-speaks-truth/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/search-and-avoid-dan-conley-trying-to-bamboozle-public-while-chief-justice-raph-gants-speaks-truth/#commentsSun, 29 Mar 2015 20:21:36 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=76775At recent Pioneer Institute event SJC Chief Justice Ralph Gants used his time to decry mandatory criminal sentencing in a well thought articulate presentation based on law and facts.

This lightweight who thinks he’s a super heavyweight ripped into Gants in what has been described by many there as very unprofessional. (a lawyer can disagree with a judge but the higher the judge the outward respect shown rises exponentially. The SJC Chief is BIG regardless and Dan talked down to him. Punk.)

Dan said Gants and those who think like him are a mess. The broken window policies 1990s work is his mantra.

AND

DISTRCT ATTORNEYS KNOW BETTER THAN JUDGES AND EVEREYONE ELSE WHAT THE PROPER SENTENCES FOR CRIMINALS ARE AND MANDATORY SENTENCING MAKES SURE THEY CAN CONTROL SENTENCING RATHER THAN JUST RECCOMMEND.

That is Dan Conley’s position.

Real simple folks.

Public policy and we as schmucks want our district attorney to have discretion. It’s a good thing. That’s why they have a lot of discretion. We want that. Let’s them clean out the shit. Take each case and each person as a new hand of cards and play what you have. Therefore they can stop bad stuff from happening. We want that. People make bad decisions and sometimes cops make bad decisions. (I know, hard to believe, but they do)

And if the D.A. is being a dick on a case, which they are often and by often, I mean every single day somewhere; you can plead your case to a judge and/or jury.

THEN if your found guilty you can plead your circumstances to the judge who then will consider all the relevant facts on this particular case and hand out what she thinks is a fair sentence.

That’s how it works. Goes back to all this Greek shit about justice and stuff. Fucking law schools around the world are full of poindexters who all agree on this basic principal. It’s a given.

The judge is the fairest person in the courtroom. Not the lawyers. And especially not lawyer politicians elected to be there, like the D.A.

Mandatory sentencing flips this around. The judge can’t change the charge the D.A. brought and can’t consider anything in sentencing unless she wants to up the minimum mandatory.

BUT Dan says he knows best so there should be mandatory sentencing allowing him to charge someone and determine the sentence.

Did you know there are people serving minimum mandatories because the car they were in was pulled over within a school zone rather than a block or two before or after? That’s how mandatory sentencing is used btw. OR

Remember the kid in school who first sold fireworks, then football cards and finally in his junior year sold bones and small bags? Remember him? An American icon.

Anyway, having never been arrested for anything, should he do mandatory jail time for getting caught by the school police officer passing a nickel bag in the boy’s room? Dan says yes.

Unless he decides no. But that’s his decision and his alone. Capiche? I’m Dan Conley and I’m important.

D.A.s are suppose to see that people don’t get screwed like this. But they don’t.

Question: Why do our state treasurers have to be 100% supporters of the lottery and why do many D.A.s feel they have to charge everyone with the toughest crime available and follow through with the gusto of The Incredible Hulk?

I not gonna mention the opportunities corupt district attorneys and assistant district atorneys have to make milions of dollars when there is big criminal money invested in their seemingly everyday decisons. Like not charging drug dealers with mandaotory minimums but a lessor charge. Opportunities aren’t as great without the mandatory minimums.

Who is going to run against Dan Conley in three years?

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/search-and-avoid-dan-conley-trying-to-bamboozle-public-while-chief-justice-raph-gants-speaks-truth/feed/7Don’t Let The Hillary People and The Republicans Fool You, Sen. Elizabeth Warren Is No Sen. Barack Obama. She’ll Win Over Reagan Dems. Establishment Scared to Deathhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/dont-let-the-hillary-people-and-the-republicans-fool-you-sen-elizabeth-warren-is-no-sen-barack-obama/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/dont-let-the-hillary-people-and-the-republicans-fool-you-sen-elizabeth-warren-is-no-sen-barack-obama/#commentsTue, 24 Mar 2015 02:56:21 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=76686So now the Hillaryites (disguised as pro Liz Warren people or disinterested Dems) say Liz should not run because the country will view her as another Barack Obama. A first term fluke senator who suddenly becomes the flavor of the week among the shallow ignorant self-impressed dominating the “progressive” wing of the party can not be paraded in front of the American people again. Just ain’t gonna work.

Don’t buy it. Just the old folks doing their devotions to the Blessed Hillary. They know they blew their chance eight years ago but hubris makes them believe the seas should be parted for her candidacy.

Screw them.

Face it folks, making Barack Obama President in ’08 was like putting One Direction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year. Like them, Barack is a manufactured boy band who plays to a much larger audience. With Liz it’s more like a young Aretha just walked in the room.

Don’t believe me? How about the dozens of “present’ votes he took in the U.S. Senate?

Obama was more like a sports prospect a general manager falls in love with. Guy should have stayed in the minors never mind starting game one in the World Series.

And it shows.

Now Liz, Liz is much different. She has a record and would never vote “present” over and over again for political ambition.

That’s just a start.

But the real point is that everyone is afraid of Liz. That says much.

What really scares the Republicans is that Liz plays to Reagan Democrats probably more than Reagan. So they and Hillary have to drown out her message to beat her. That won’t be easy.

BTW why again is it that Liz Warren fans do not want her to run for president? I just don’t get the argument against from her fans.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/dont-let-the-hillary-people-and-the-republicans-fool-you-sen-elizabeth-warren-is-no-sen-barack-obama/feed/32Attention Local Charities: Thanks To Stadium Bob Kraft Is Giving More Money Away Than Ever Before. Better Grab When The Grabbin’s Good. Tom Finneran Negotiating With Kraft?http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/attention-local-charities-thanks-to-stadium-bob-kraft-is-giving-more-money-away-right-now-than-ever-before-better-grab-when-the-grabbins-good/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/attention-local-charities-thanks-to-stadium-bob-kraft-is-giving-more-money-away-right-now-than-ever-before-better-grab-when-the-grabbins-good/#commentsFri, 20 Mar 2015 20:58:40 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=76628The guy’s all over the place right now. Way more than the prior Super Bowl years. He’s even had Tom Brady show his face at a few events.

And the money. Marone! The money. Suddenly everything in Boston is getting the Kraft treatment times ten. Not just giving dough away but making phone calls to A-list international names getting them to write checks for a few parochial causes.

Hmmmm. Must be out of love. Don’t you think?

Or could it be that this brilliant yet flawed man really thinks the state and the city will given him what he needs to build a soccer stadium for son Jonathan? Didn’t Tom Finneran teach him a lesson like 20 years ago or something? Does he think that Charlie Baker, Bob DeLeo, Stan Rosenberg, and Marty Walsh fell of the turnip truck yesterday?

Kraft thinks that by showing up to certain events, writing checks, name dropping, and having the trophy follow him like a devoted dog he is going to get Bob DeLeo to say to him when he calls,

“No problem Mr. Kraft, we’ll remove that comma in the legislation that saves you a couple of bucks at our expense. Hey by the way Mr. Kraft, I love that Vince Wilfork story you told me at the gala the other night. You’re the best thanks. It’s really special to know you and be associated with you, even if from such a lowly position as mine”

So to all you non-profits out there that have an association with anyone at all who can simply annoy or actually prohibit the legacy Kraft wants to leave for Jonathan so Jonathan can have his own legacy in American soccer the time is now.

So say you are a Catholic School in Dorchester or a drug rehab in Winthrop or an abortion clinic in Springfield, or that Jewish YMCA in Swampscott (you know the one I mean) I suggest you run a time honoring someone you have ties with locally. Like the Senate Prez, Gov, speaker or mayor. Then tell Kraft about it. I guarantee he’ll fucking adopt your cause and pay all its bills. Until of course the stadium issue is moot.

So go ahead. Make Kraft’s day. Run a time for Bill Linnahan. Even he’ll draw a few bucks from Mr. Kraft.

P.S. If Marty Walsh and Charlie Baker had senses of humor they would hire Tom Finneran to negotiate the soccer stadium with Bob Kraft. Every single detail. No matter what it takes.

Now that would be fun to watch. And nobody would protect the taxpayers more the Finneran in this deal. That’s wha he’s good at. Negotiating sports stadiums with big time owners.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/attention-local-charities-thanks-to-stadium-bob-kraft-is-giving-more-money-away-right-now-than-ever-before-better-grab-when-the-grabbins-good/feed/1Tsarnaev Trial Raises More Questions Than Answers. Who Is David Margolis? Who Is Winston Wolf? What Is The Justice Department Hiding?http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/tsarnaev-trial-raises-more-questions-than-answers-who-is-david-margolis-and-what-is-justice-department-hiding/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/tsarnaev-trial-raises-more-questions-than-answers-who-is-david-margolis-and-what-is-justice-department-hiding/#commentsThu, 19 Mar 2015 02:44:17 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=76575Here’s an anecdote from the marathon bombing trial. The other day an FBI agent was on the stand testifying as to the text messages and tweets found on the younger Tsarnaev’s phone. There were a few thousand messages and tweets discovered. The agent detailed a couple of dozen. He showed the jury a picture of Mecca and a number of tweets that had no other meaning than ‘death to America’. Guaranteed.

Well on cross-examination it came out that the poor FBI agent was set-up by some of Carmen Ortiz’s finest. The photo of Mecca was actually a picture of the mosque Tsarnaev attended back home. The tweets? They were all pop culture references including a couple of Tosh.0 bits. When broken down none of the tweets were nefarious in anyway.

But here’s the kicker. The FBI agent was just doing his job. The defense attorney got him to admit that the prosecutors just gave him those few tweets to review and informed him what they meant. He was not asked to investigate further, just take the script and get on the stand.

Here’s the bigger question? Is the Justice Department hiding something? Like the Bulger trial, is this trial more about protecting people and institutions than seeking justice? Are there one or two bureaucrats holed-up in Washington D.C. who pull strings to put out fires like this? Like this Margolis guy perhaps?

Remember, it’s not about justice it’s about protecting the image.

The facts:

1. Bomb goes off

2. Surveillance photos show clearly the faces of the bombers

3. At least one of the bombers was previoulsy interviewed by local FBI agnets. They were known to the anti-terrorist community.

4. The FBI has in the past infiltrated Mosques and other Muslim institutions in search of potential terrorists.

5. As part of their task they have developed and attempted to develop informants within the local Muslim community.

6. After the bombing the FBI released the photos to the public asking for its help.

7. The “book” says in situations where the suspects are dangerous, desperate, and highly irrational releasing the photos is the least desired and last resort in the list of protocols. That is because there is a likely chance the culprit will commit more crazed acts to escape the situation he’s in. He becomes more desperate. Everyone knows this.

8. When someone commits violent acts that cause as much suffering as the Tsarnaevs caused then there always is the possibility of a pitch-fork mob or aggressive law enforcement types will apply street justice when found.

9. Soon after the photos were released the bombers went into action. They killed Officer Collier then had the Hollywood shoot out which left one of them dead. One down, one to go.

10. The boat. The bad guy in the boat. Police under orders not to shoot. Police shoot. BPD Captain Evans screams into radio and orders seize fire. (Not his jurisdiction btw, just a smart guy with balls).

12. An FBI agent from a west coast office with a shady past goes to Florida and kills a close friend of the bombers claiming a. it was in self-defense; and b. had nothing to do with bombing but was about a drug related murder in Waltham, MA.

See what I mean? Why would the FBI care about that murder? Doesn’t make sense. Nothing does.

13. WERE THE TSARNAEVS BEING RECRUITED AS FBI INFORMANTS ONLY TO TURN OUT TO BE THE TERRORISTS? IS THIS ABOUT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAVING FACE?

Whose decision was it to release the pictures? Whose decision was it to send the violent FBI agent to interview Todeschev and why?

The same person who is seeing to it that John Connolly stays in jail, Pat Nee murders people without being charged, and John Martorano and Kevin Weeks are living the life of Riley, that’s who.

In my opinion it’s David Margolis. He’s been in the Justice Department over 50 years and prides himself as being the guy who makes problems for the Justice Department go away. Think about that.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/tsarnaev-trial-raises-more-questions-than-answers-who-is-david-margolis-and-what-is-justice-department-hiding/feed/26Why We Can Have The Olympics. We’re Not Push-Overs Like Vladmir Putin + Ut Oh, Two Clowns Named Mike Moran and Aaron Michiewitz Want The Olympics To Know Who They Arehttp://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/no-reason-we-cant-pull-off-the-olympics-question-is-whether-ioc-will-let-us/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/no-reason-we-cant-pull-off-the-olympics-question-is-whether-ioc-will-let-us/#commentsSun, 15 Mar 2015 17:49:13 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=76476Here’s how I see it and tell me if I’m wrong.

A private organization is interested in conducting a number of events here in July of 2024. They wish to have some of the events held in private places such as Fenway Park and others on public spaces such as the Boston Common.

No different than the Andleman Brothers having their BBQ festival on City Hall Plaza every summer or the Democratic National Convention coming to town.

The event organizer is a private group called the International Olympic Committee. Another private entity headed by John Fish has set-up shop here to plan and advocate for Boston to be chosen then run it if we are.

So, like the Andleman Brothers and the people who run the Swan Boats (not free) and the ice skating in the Common (again not free) Fish’s group will negotiate with the appropriate public entities down to the number of trash barrels the IOC will provide and a deal will be made for each.

(BTW in 2018 before signing the bid the mayor and the governor should be as knowledgeable as anyone on the deals affecting city and state property respectively. At a joint press conference announcing final bid, the Charlie should know all the specifics of the deals with the state and same for Marty re: city. The real nitty-gritty. It will pay off for them if they spend the time and learn more than expected.)

They also will negotiate with the Boston Garden, Fenway Park, Boston College, UMass Boston, hotels, landowners, caterers, transportation carries and a slew of other private entities needed to pull it off.

The local private group is putting it together one piece at a time. Each venue and accommodation is a piece of the huge puzzle. Do we have the venues needed? If not are the ones in the pipe-line from private sector.

The answer is yes. This just pushes them. Deadlines make this world run.

So we get Bob Kraft to pay the city and the other businesses around Frontage Road market value and re-location costs for the land, he builds the soccer stadium, the Olympic people then pay him rent and money to build and tear-down a temp Olympic Stadium.

Actually this is our sweet spot. Thanks to Tom Finneran Massachusetts doesn’t pay for sports stadiums. We will give you roads and sidewalks to get there but that’s all. We have a precedent and reputation and we are sticking with it. (Maybe we”re wrong about the way we go about it. Teams need public financing to win and stay competitive right? That’s what everyone says. I wonder what the Duck Boat people think of that? More conventional wisdom we blew apart)

So if the 2018 contract says a velodrome will be built at Assembly Square in Somerville by some private folks and come close to 2024 the thing’s not built for what ever reason and they come to the tax payers for money guess what? We don’t care. Tough shit IOC and John Fish.

The Olympics need us. We don’t need them. The Summer Olympics are turning into a competition among despots who rape from their economy and build unneeded sports venues and Olympic Villages from government funds.

Boston and MA won’t look bad if we demand they stick to the agreement and we never provide another cent. Who cares? Screw them. Who do they think we are? Some push-over like Putin?

If the Olympics don’t come here it will be because we didn’t want them not the other way around.

Patients will still come from around the world to see our doctors. Super-smart people will still come to our schools, and we can still be MassHoles.

(Like China had a campaign encouraging its people not to spit during the Olympics, I can see Jack Connors getting the nod for “The Don’t Be a Mass-Hole During the Olympics” ad campaign.)

If Boston can pull of a successful Summer Olympics in 2024 it will be known in those circles as the “City that Changed the Olympics”.

On the other hand I can see the mayor not signing a 2018 agreement because it just ain’t worth it. ‘We can never have anything nice in this house because of you kids. All this fighting ruins everything. That’s it. No trip to Disneyland. You’re staying with your grandmother and your father and I are going someplace nice by ourselves.’

Or

‘The stuff they (OIC) want us to do for their shitty little games is too much. Screw them. We thought we were doing them the favor. Rome can have them.’

Now if the contract says the taxpayers will provide a pre-agreed upon public infrastructure then we have to follow through on it.

If anyone is going to get ripped off let it be John Fish and not us. Then we have a deal.

Right now Marty Walsh is the gate-keeper and he’s given us no reason not to trust him on this.

(LOL Good bye Greenline extension to Medford. Those poor Somerville yuppies will have to take one of the many convenient and short bus trips to Davis Square, Wellington Station, Sullivan Square, Alewife, and Harvard Square. Or take a bus straight in town direct. Oh and don’t forget the commuter rail line there too. (Really, these fucking yuppies do believe the world revolves around them.)

Note to Boston Olympic Committee and other advocates.

STOP SAYING BOSTON IS GREAT SPORTS CITY SO OLYMPIC’S A NATURAL. WE’RE NOT. AND WE LIKE IT THIS WAY.

We are not. We are a local sports city. The Beanpot? SUCKS (unless alumni) The Marathon? SUCKS (unless running it or you go to Wellesley College.) The Head of the Charles? SUCKS. Like the mararthon you can’t even drink there anymore. Only thing that made them tolerable WTF) The Revolution? Baahaaahaaa

We hate sports here. And we don’t consider the Olympics sports.

We only have four sports here. Red Sox baseball, Patriots football, Celtic basketball, and Bruins hockey. Candlepin bowling too but that isn’t on TV anymore. In the weekly sports TV ratings candlepin bowling was always at the top with the local games. National games other than Monday Night Football that didn’t have a Boston team had 4 people watching, plus the gamblers. Check the local ratings during the upcoming NBA and NHL playoffs. We hate sports.

Jesus Christ our local college hockey scene makes Chapel Hill look like they have good junior high basketball teams. We are putting kids in the NHL like Steve Wynn puts Everett big shots on his pay-roll. And guess what? We don’t care.

So don’t keep insulting us with this talking point. Lose it. Go ahead and tell the IOC it belongs here because we are sports fans. We will pretend it’s true to help you out. But don’t try to tell us this. Okay?

One more thing. Why do we need the two incompetent giddly school girls known as state reps Michael Moran and Aaron Michiewits being players in this thing? These are the same two Bozos who ran to the Globe two years ago proclaiming they were the kingmakers and go-to-guys for Charlotte Golar Richie’s mayoral efforts. One of the most bizarre politcal stories I ever read.

There guys are so incompetent. It’s a shame. Bobby Deleo has little to work with up there. Anyway the ticket scapers from the North End are already calling Michiewitz about getting boat loads of ducats for the women’s gymnastic finals. Make the Yiddish Sal feel important when they call. He lives for it.

All these two want is to be important but they are clueless about what it means.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/no-reason-we-cant-pull-off-the-olympics-question-is-whether-ioc-will-let-us/feed/12Hey Elizabeth Vizza and the Other Elistist Snobs Running the Boston Common, Shut-Up You!http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/hey-elizabeth-vizza-and-the-other-elistist-snobs-running-the-boston-common-shut-up-you/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/hey-elizabeth-vizza-and-the-other-elistist-snobs-running-the-boston-common-shut-up-you/#commentsSat, 14 Mar 2015 04:02:46 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=76455So the puss face old farts running the Boston Common say that’s no place for an Olympic event and they aren’t having it. They say it’s a place where no one should pay for anything. Or something like that.

Excuse me? Ahhh, I remember paying good money to see concerts on the Common. In fact they called them “Concerts on the Common”. They didn’t call them “Free Concerts on the Common”. That’s because they weren’t. Some concert promoter paid the city money. They fenced up an area, built a stage and sold tickets. Just like the Olympics are asking to do.

So don’t get all uppity on me about the Common being some sacred ground. Bring back the days of the three card monte games, Hari Krishnas, and mentally ill old ladies feeding the pigeons while loudly wishing cancer upon anyone who shood them away.

On and you know what Lizzi baby? As far as the Common goes you will do what you are told. You understand that, right? The Olympics will pay you rent, construct the venue, run the event, tear the venue down, and return the piece of shit land in the awsome location to the unlandscaped-semi-grassed-user-friendly-piece of turf it is.

The “Common”. Get it Elizabeth? Really girl come back to earth.

Actually you don’t have to because I am sure Mayor Walsh has already started rolling the wheels to get you the F out of here. You needlessly stuck your head out of a rabbit hole.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/hey-elizabeth-vizza-and-the-other-elistist-snobs-running-the-boston-common-shut-up-you/feed/31OMG, I Can’t Believe What a Bunch Of Whiney Selfish One-Dimensional Prune-Face Bunch of P*****s This Backwater Jerkville We Call Boston Has Become. Bloody Embarrassing Ole Chap. Calm Thoughts on Snow and The Olympicshttp://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/omg-i-cant-believe-what-a-bunch-of-whiney-selfish-one-dimensional-bunch-of-pussies-boston-has-become-bloody-embarressing-ole-chap/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/omg-i-cant-believe-what-a-bunch-of-whiney-selfish-one-dimensional-bunch-of-pussies-boston-has-become-bloody-embarressing-ole-chap/#commentsTue, 10 Mar 2015 17:08:57 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=76383What a bunch of babies. You people make me sick.

Listen up folks, the only people who have a valid bitch about the snow are the tens of thousands who had to get to and from work every day on the T. And only those whose routines were seriously interrupted along with the ungodly physical discomfort on many occasions can bitch. This also applies to business and such who rely on the T to get their workers to and fro.

Now if you had one or two bad days with the T during the storm, shut the fuck up. It’s a snowstorm and that’s what happens when things run and snow buries the city.

But now we hear people bitching that the roads and sidewalks weren’t completely free of snow within 24 hours? Two days? A week? I don’t know but other then the T I haven’t seen reasons to complain. Sure there are isolated areas.

And Boston’s neighborhoods are not the center of the snow storm. You would think we all lived in Southie and had space savers.

That’s another thing that irks me. Space savers. They’ve been ubiquitous in dense urban northeast neighborhoods from the beginning. Now before some d-bag pipes in and says that when she lived in Manhattan they didn’t use space savers let me say Manhattan is different. But go out to some neighborhoods in Queens and Statin Island, you will see them. Then go to Providence, Worcester, Manchester NH, Portland, Maine, Everett, Fall River, Lowell, Hartford and most other places. You’ll see them.

But for some reason they became a big controversy when all these yuppies and media types from far away suburban-driveway-land want things to be just like home. Except for the fact they can say they live in Southie or the South End.

Now the Olympics.

As Archie Bunker would say, “Shut-Up You”.

My goodness. Nobody has committed. Right now is the second round of preliminary and all the pols are positioning themselves to get a piece of it. Like the Yiddish Sal from the North End and the Mike Maroon from Brighton.

No need to repeat the arguments that this helps us get our infrastructure, including the T, where it should be and public money will not pay for venues. Only public money will be for security, most comes from the feds.

And yes we can’t trust it. But this crying and yipping over the cost down to parking as if it couldn’t be done shows what small pathetic potatoes we are.

Right now we have two years to see if we can do it and then take the next step. The city is insured for this step. I was expecting to see a bloated payroll yesterday. i didn’t. We can bicker about Deval but the rest were more than reasonable for the task at hand. Those who complain about these salaries really make us look like some backwater jerksville.

It’s like this folks. Pretend you’re an old guy. Family man. Have a few bucks. Nice house in a nice suburb.

Your oldest daughter just got engaged. You have your doubts about the guy but nothing to go on. And you can see she loves him.

Now imagine they want to have a big wedding at your house. You know what that means, don’t you?

Time to spend money on the house. All those things that it needs but never got to. Maybe paint the house, replace some furniture, new windows here and there, resurface the driveway, replace a retaining wall, go crazy on the landscaping.

The house is now the house you always wanted and it’s value increased.

Now right before you hand over money to the caterer, the florist, the band, the photographer, the church, the limo, and the mother of the bride outfit the wedding is called off. Turns out you were right. The groom was a scumbag and it the bride finally saw it.

Win win. Avoided having this guy marry into the family and did what was needed to be done to the house.

Now I know in this analogy you wouldn’t want to be home after your daughter’s wedding is called off. Talk about drama.

But guess what? Your daughter is not the bride. It’s John Fish. Who cares?

And that right now is our worse case scenerio right now. In 2018 we start paying the caterer.

One more thing. John Fish maybe the bride but it’s an arranged marriage and Marty Walsh can call it off if he doesn’t like what the dowry will cost. From what I can tell, this fuckin kid from Dorchester will have no problem pulling the plug in 2018. If they can’t do it like he wants them to he’ll tell them to pound sand I bet.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/03/if-this-video-gets-100000-views-15000-will-go-to-wounded-vets-playing-sled-hockey-btw-its-laugh-out-loud-funny/feed/3Hey Ipswich Firefighters, You Suck! – Put the T in Receivershiphttp://bluemassgroup.com/2015/02/hey-ipswich-firefighters-you-suck-put-the-t-in-receivership/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/02/hey-ipswich-firefighters-you-suck-put-the-t-in-receivership/#commentsWed, 18 Feb 2015 03:25:07 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=76035So they have a three alarm fire this morning in Ipswich. (that’s a three bagger in jake speak) Luckily every one got out safely. Unfortunately the firefighters were hampered because the hydrants were covered in snow. It took time to dig them out.

Here’s the kicker. The house on fire was across the street from the fire station.

So I ask you, why weren’t theses guys out clearing the hydrants the past few weeks? These ones were steering them in their faces.

First up, no reason why all departments can’t be out there clearing hydrants. Boston is. And second, many if not most people take it upon themselves to clear hydrants in front of their homes and businesses. In fact civic leaders, especially fire chiefs, ask that we do.

Therefore the Ipswich fire department sucks on both counts.

Screw them, do your job.

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Put the T in receivership. It worked to clean up the harbor. It cleaned up Chelsea. It made the Boston Schools much worse. But hey, what could be worse than the staus quo?

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/02/hey-ipswich-firefighters-you-suck-put-the-t-in-receivership/feed/13Is Snow a Game Changer in Mass Politics? State Reps Better Watch Their Backs – Tsarnaev Venue + O’Brien Appeal + John Connolly Getting Out = Moakley Couthouse a Jokehttp://bluemassgroup.com/2015/02/is-snow-a-game-changer-in-mass-politics-so-far-it-is-tsarnaev-venue-obrien-appeal-john-connolly-getting-out-moakley-couthouse-a-joke/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/02/is-snow-a-game-changer-in-mass-politics-so-far-it-is-tsarnaev-venue-obrien-appeal-john-connolly-getting-out-moakley-couthouse-a-joke/#commentsThu, 12 Feb 2015 17:30:07 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=75969Bravo for Beverly Scott. She said “f#ck Boston, I ain’t sticking around just so you can kick the ever living sh!t out of me everyday until I leave. F#ck you you frauds.” Or something like that. [edited to keep our PG-13 rating -ed.]

Anyhoo I have a message for the reps and senators who are still living in the past. You better watch your backs. You too Speaker Deleo. Too bad your father didn’t work for the MBTA.

Every morning and every afternoon hundreds and thousands of your constituents are having the unhealthiest almost psychotic anger towards their state government.

And now the Speaker is telling them that no new revenues are needed to fix this creation of underfunding.

Instead you stuff casinos down their throats because that’s what Bobby wanted. Now and forever Vegas will have local revenue to spend on Beacon Hill. First up, Steve Wynn. That stinks.

And of course you guys had no problem giving Bobby the extended plan.

Now the problem is magnified. Every time there is a breakdown or a late bus the conversation will turn to the suckiness of the T and the gluttons on Beacon Hill who are more interested in getting their friends no-show jobs.

You could have an opponent Bobby. One with gusto. All those people busing it to Orient Heights and then taking the Blue Line. Not good Bobby, not good.

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Not for nothing but if the Tsarnaev case is not one that deserves a change of venue then what the hell is? Really.

Don’t be surprised if it gets moved and Judge O’Toole has to start all over again. The federal appeals court is all over it.

And how about the same appeals court being highly suspicious of Fred “No Cred” Wyshak’s fantasy probation case? They put their hands up like a traffic cop seeing a kilo of coke fall off a truck and said “hold it right there, nobody move.” Hence the rare move of delaying their sentence until they piece this together.

And then we have former FBI agent John Connolly. The full bench of a Florida Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments today and they seemed perplexed as most everyone else who has taken the time to learn the details.

Expect Connolly to be back here soon and I don’t think he’s gonna fade away.

Taken together it seems the local federal judiciary, U.S. Attorneys office, Fred Wyshak, and many in the media are becoming more and more a joke within the Justice Department and the Federal Judiciary.

Remember Judge Stearns being thrown off the Bulger case?

The Globe seems to have a personal interest in two of the three stories. They created both. Created from nothing and turned into Gospel truth.

People’s views change when confronted with facts free of a bombardment of propaganda from prejudiced parties. Like the world is flat and Tookie raped those kids.

Tick tick tick for Globe.

BTW did anyone see that feature on the front page of Sunday’s Globe listing the 20 most powerful people in the Red Sox organization?

I’m sorry, but I really dislike these people.

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Don’t worry, be happy. You’re on the T.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/02/is-snow-a-game-changer-in-mass-politics-so-far-it-is-tsarnaev-venue-obrien-appeal-john-connolly-getting-out-moakley-couthouse-a-joke/feed/43Scot Lehigh Says Blizzard of ’78 Was Tougher to Clean Up Than The Three Storms We’ve Had. HMMMhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2015/02/scot-lehigh-says-blizzard-of-78-was-tougher-to-clean-up-than-the-three-storms-weve-had/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/02/scot-lehigh-says-blizzard-of-78-was-tougher-to-clean-up-than-the-three-storms-weve-had/#commentsWed, 11 Feb 2015 03:03:29 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=75938Scot Lehigh was bitching and moaning about Mayor walsh today like a true soft handed elitist because all the snow hasn’t been removed yet. (Really, between you and I he’s just one of many local “journalists” who wish him to fail and are waiting for opportunities to knock Walsh because he beat their guy)

Granted, we’ve had a record amount of snow, but it hasn’t been of the heavy, high-wind-driven, impossible-to-keep-up-with, Blizzard of ’78 variety.

Scott, were you here in ’78? We had 27 inches in a day and a half. Lots of wind and yes it was heavy snow. But the state closed down for two weeks. Two straight weeks of snow days followed by the February vacation. Three starlight weeks.

The National Guard was called out to help remove the snow. BTW Why did it take Charlie so long to order Guard and ITS EQUIPMENT to help out?

Coastal flooding caused much damage in the usual neighborhoods and some others. Unfortunately 40 plus people died in their cars on 128.

And no deliveries, remember? Shelves were bare a good week and gradually came back. There was no milk, no bread, no ice cream, no toilet paper, no tuna fish, no eggs, no Boscoe. That storm was like the Depression is to the old folks. After you experience it you want to make sure you are prepared. Thus every storm since supermarkets make a quick score.

So this was 27 inches in 18 hours. It took two weeks before anything was worth getting to.

I’m pretty sure the T closed.

Here we’ve had over 60 inches in 13 days. The first storm was classified as a blizzard. Since saturday we’ve had over 20 inches and we had a big storm in between. We’ve also had blistering cold temperatures the past few weeks. The record books don’t lie about the amount of snow we’ve had.

Now I remember the Blizzard of ’78 being a total shut down of most everything. Why? Because we couldn’t handle 27 inches of snow and the wind and high tide that came with it. But after 36 hours we had clear skies. Different conditions for cleaning up.

Granted wet snow causes more damage but Lehigh is an arse for using the ’78 storm as proof of his lazy argument.

Duh Scot, everyone working the storm has pretty much kicked ass compared to what happened in 1978

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Tell me “journalism” isn’t a joke. Brian Williams is suspended for six months. WTF. The most self-impressed profession (actually inferior comnplex profession) which boasts that credibility and honesty are treating Williams fopar like they would an excessive abuse of travel expenses.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/02/scot-lehigh-says-blizzard-of-78-was-tougher-to-clean-up-than-the-three-storms-weve-had/feed/6Compare Charlie Baker to Marty Walsh During Snowgate, Shall We?http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/02/compare-charlie-baker-to-marty-walsh-during-snowgate-shall-we/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/02/compare-charlie-baker-to-marty-walsh-during-snowgate-shall-we/#commentsTue, 10 Feb 2015 18:15:12 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=75925The working class kid v. the privileged one. (Talk about making it easy to use this tired cliché.)

What does Marty do? Not point fingers, get to work, and tell the people what’s going on.

What does Charlie do? Whine and whine and use the opportunity to set-up the poor soul who had to run this shit of a mass transit agency made possible by his own Welducci administration because they let the thieves run the Big Dig causing lack of political will to help out the T or any other transportation project since.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/02/compare-charlie-baker-to-marty-walsh-during-snowgate-shall-we/feed/1Reporter Jan Ransom Uses Space Savers to Explain Boston Globe’s Unadulterated Dismissiveness of Local Working Class Better Than Anyone Elsehttp://bluemassgroup.com/2015/02/jan-ransom-explains-boston-globes-unadulterated-dismissiveness-of-local-working-class-better-than-anyone-else/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/02/jan-ransom-explains-boston-globes-unadulterated-dismissiveness-of-local-working-class-better-than-anyone-else/#commentsThu, 05 Feb 2015 21:35:45 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=75834You know how I complain that the Boston Globe’s philosophy is screw the white ethnic working class folks who have inhabited our neighborhoods for 150 years? Well, it’s not a “screw them” attitude, it’s more of a ” these people are so stupid, and ignorant, and selfish, and untrustworthy, and breed like rabbits, and have no respect for culture soooo we must do what we think is in their best interest.” In other words “Screw them.”

As a result the paper recruits like-minded wait-til-they-get-a-load-of-me-young-hipster-poorly-paid-reporters explaining what’s happening in Boston.

And what do we get when these inexperienced youngsters are allowed to run around with no supervision or worse given guidance from one of these self-impressed Globies with an over-inflated ego and a genetic disdain for people whose people came over from Europe a generation or three ago? (Unless of course they sold out like Kevin Cullen and Brian McGrory.) A dangerous tongue lashing from a new minion in town. That’s what. (How can the article help this young woman as she starts out here?)

Anyway here comes overly confident Jan. (She’s from New York City by the way. Just ask her. She’s gut cred.)

And I bet she is vocally proud of being highly sensitive to preserving local cultures and customs all around the world and how dare the United States tell other countries what to do and if only people took the time to understand each other and respect is everything and we can’t make people change their ways simply for our self-interest and blah blah blah.

So it seems the good people of one particular block in Mattapan have hit the lottery when it comes to neighbors. Lucky for them the Globe’s new hire Jan Ransom moved in and the missionary work’s begun. Thank you Jesus!

Here’s a piece from one of Jan’s inaugural sermons

An assortment of wooden chairs, folding tables, metal stools, garbage cans, and orange traffic cones — known as parking savers, I would learn — dotted the quaint, cozy Mattapan block I just began calling home late last month.

“Wait, are they holding public parking spaces?” I asked my boyfriend as I tried to process the scene, two days after last week’s blizzard.

As a native New Yorker who has also lived in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, I’d never seen a parking saver. Ever. The concept was absurdly strange.

Tiny snow hills were stacked in the front and back of the claimed public parking spots. And I refused to park our rented black Fiat 500 far from my apartment building just to find an “unclaimed” shoveled space.

The New Yorker in me — maybe naively — opted to remove one of the parking savers to make way for le Fiat.

My boyfriend placed one parking saver, a traffic cone atop a pile of snow on the curbside and I backed into the space in front of a three-story house.

Don’t we all wish we were as smart as Jan when we were her age?

BTW how about the poor boyfriend? I wonder if she ever takes his testicles out of her purse and lets him spend some time with them. Reminisce about the good times. You know she was screaming and having amelt down. Total freak scene I bet as she screamed at him to remove the cone. I think they just drove from New York in that little fiat. Must have sucked. She was not happy when the she saw the parking situation. Not happy at all. Poor boyfriend.

I hope the Globe follows up on this. She’s not backing down and seems proud of her rebellious yet selfish parking ways. There could be some neighborhood ugliness.

The House as an Institution: By definition term limits causes turmoil inside the House and weakens it on the oustide. A lame duck speaker gives a governor and senate a huge advantage in getting things done as House members obsess about his replacement and are they “in” with the right people. Totally sucks the air out of the place.

LOSERS:

Ron Mariano: The majority leader/kingmaker is not happy. Jesus effin cripes. He’s spent the past six years making sure his hand chosen minion will be the next speaker, in this case Brian Dempsey. Do you know how many goddamn dinners he’s had to endure with schlomo reps from East Puttsville and other god forsaken places in order to get the one and only thing they have that’s worth anything? Other than the name they spit out when called for their speaker vote they’re worthless. WORTHLESS I TELL YOU!

So now he has to keep them all in line for much longer than anticipated. First off, them being made to do something they don’t like to do (vote to extend the term limits – makes them look bad at home and second (actually a derivitive of the first thing) this is the type of vote that can come back during election season and severely bite many of them on thier asses.

Brian Dempsey: How pissed off is this guy right now? How long will this go on for? Can he keep his people together? Trust me on this. Nobody is more interested in Bob DeLeo’s health right now than Brian Dempsey.

LOOZAHS:

Tom Sannicandro: The courageous and overly self-impressed liberal’s liberal from Framingham whose politics is pretty much opposite of the very conservative (Massachusetts Democratic conservative) Bob DeLeo sent out a transparent, insulting, embarrassing, shameful, moronic, naive, etc. etc. tweet this morning.

Really Tom? Really? Which chairmanship are you gunning for? What was the purpose of the tweet? Are you for real dude? Not only has he “changed the world” for peoiple with disabilities he’s so awsome he needs to stay. Are you fucking high?

Now if Scaccia or some other old timer with institutional respect and buddies with DeLeo tweeted this out I’d laugh and say “good job.”

But you Tom? Baahahah. Not only does this tweet prove you a fraud it proves you a clueless one.

Instead of keeping of your mouth shut and voting you had to go above a beyond. Another lightweight.

Brad Garrett, I mean Garrett Bradley: Oh sure he’s been whipping up the votes for DeLeo. By that I mean he’s been calling up reps and having a conversation that goes something like this.

Rep. Bippity Bop: Hello

Brad: Hey Bip, it’s me Brad.

Bip: Oh, hey Brad.

Brad: Listen, Bip, leadership, including the speaker, want to make some rules changes come next term. As you know some of our current rules do nothing but weaken us as an institution and that’s never good.

Bip: So true. So true.

Brad: Right. So we’re gonna get rid of the speaker’s terms limits and a few other things so we can move this place in the right direction. All right?

Bip: You tell the speaker I’m here for him when it counts. He has my support on the rules changes.

Brad: He’ll appreciate that Bip. He’ll appreciate that. Take care.

Bip: You too Brad, take care.

Click

After hanging up Representative Bop mumbles to himself, “Muuuuthah Fuuuckah. I can’t believe these guys.”

And scene

That’s not politics Brad, I mean Garrett, no, screw it, I mean Brad. That’s just being a messenger. Like a pencil and paper. Like a tool.

But that’s not my problem with Brad Garrett aka Garrett Bradley. My problem is that the triple eagle rep, from upper crust Hingham in 2015 thinks he’s a working class rep. from Lowell in 1970. He’s got relatives up the kazoo on the state payroll. Not one or two. Many more. Very unbecoming Brad. Not cool anymore. Take care of one, maybe two. So un-Hingham like.

Anyway because of Brad’s willingness to carry the ball for the speaker on this he’s put a bull’s-eye on himself and that’s resulted in the uncovering of the family employment racket he’s got going.

The problem ladies and gents is that for the most part the quality of people running for the legislature has gotten worse and worse.

Portnoy’s a Boston original. We get to claim him. Like being from Liverpool when the Beatles started out. (Yeah, I said that)

P.S. I think he should run for Bosotn City Council At-Large.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMJAKnrVv1sRzlq_vqige3Q

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/john-henrys-sports-page-cant-compete-with-dave-portnoys-web-page/feed/0Bad Song + Jim Braude + Shut-Upgate + Deflategate = A Big Nothinghttp://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/bad-song-jim-braude-shut-upgate-deflategate-a-big-nothing/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/bad-song-jim-braude-shut-upgate-deflategate-a-big-nothing/#commentsThu, 22 Jan 2015 17:28:53 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=75495Do you know the song “Rich Girl” by Hall and Oates? I hate that song. It really grates on me. I’ve always found it hard to imagine all the green lights that song got by so many people before it became a top 40 hit.

Like first Hall or Oates had to be sitting there strumming his guitar trying to come up with a tune. He strums this then strums it again, then says “Hey Daryll, check this out” (or “Hey John,,,”). And the other guy had to say great and then the record company said yes and the radio stations said yes and enough people said yes to make it a hit. As long as I live I will never understand that. Shows what I know.

Anyway that’s how I feel about Jim Braude

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Two things I can’t get excited about. Deflategate and City-Hall-employees-can’t-talk-shit-about-Olympics-gate.

Let the world talk about Deflategate while the Pats get ultra-prepared for the game.

What a joke. It’s like this. You work at a place where the hours are 8:30 − 5:00 but most people come in around 8:45. Many times in front of the boss. It is the norm.

Then one day you get singled out for coming late and made out to be a conniver.

Puleeeeeze.

And the “boilerplate” language is against public policy and wouldn’t stand up anywhere. Plus the mayor is a city employee and he is not going to shut up when the city is getting screwed.

There is probably language in the contract saying state and federal laws trump the contract, but there doesn’t have to be. It goes without saying. Right David.

Now if any city employee on his own goes out and starts publicly badmouthing the project while that’s no different than a city employee running out and publicly badmouthing the extended school day. Of course that would piss off the mayor. Of course there would blowback for the employee.

But as for the language, it ain’t worth the paper it is written on.

I really think the Olympics need Boston more than we need it. They have an image problem. I think we are in the drivers seat for a lot of the nitty gritty.

If I was advising the mayor at the time he signed it while in competition with other American cities who agreed to it. I would have said,

“Look, the IOC is working with cities around the world. All sorts of bizarre places. We don’t want to stand out as pains in the asses at this early stage. Now this ‘no badmouthing’ clause is against public policy and would not hold up in any U.S. Court. (Most likely that is.) Sign this thing then we if we get it we will be negotiating a new contract and correct it. Either way Mr. Mayor you or the city council cannot be muzzled regarding any bad faith actions by them, whether a breach or a potential breach of the contract. This section is null and void at the get go.”

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/bad-song-jim-braude-shut-upgate-deflategate-a-big-nothing/feed/4F & R Auto Sales (Owned By Francis Correiro) in Wesport, MA Employees Proudly Post Video of Them Being Complete A-Holes. Pass The Wordhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/f-r-auto-sales-in-wesport-ma-employees-proudly-post-video-of-them-being-complete-a-holes-pass-the-word/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/f-r-auto-sales-in-wesport-ma-employees-proudly-post-video-of-them-being-complete-a-holes-pass-the-word/#commentsThu, 15 Jan 2015 01:15:54 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=75293Here I was, all set to write about John Henry’s foot on the pedal of the Globe’s irrelevance. The Boston.com schizophrenia, the ridiculous headline about the Bristol D.A. appointment affecting the Hernandez trial (talk about creating a story out of nothingness), a federal appeals court getting ready to kick Fred Wyshak, Judge Young, and through them the Globe over the probation fiction the Globe pushed because it is so boss.

But then I saw this. A bunch of white trash hillbilly used car salesmen and their skanky girl Friday ordered pizzas and drinks from a local pizza place.

The total bill for the pizza and drinks was just over $42, Hernandez said, and dealership workers gave Tansey $50 in two twenties and two fives. In the video, Tansey says he confirmed that they wanted to give the whole $50, and then left with what he assumed was a $7-and-change tip.

So the scumbags at F&R Auto Sales in Westport, MA realized their mistake and couldn’t believe they were ripped off. These Diamond Jim Bradys not only wanted the money back they wanted they delivery guy’s job.

Then they did what losers in life do, they called Papa Ginos and made the guy come back with the $8.00 and videoed his return. The dickheads at F & R Auto Sales in Westport, MA made him give back every penny they “over-paid”. They filmed it and posted it You Tube thinking they were in the right.

Notice how the delivery guy is the only one with any class. Also note in Boston.com story that F & R Auto Sales consistently causes them problems.

Shows how stupid these ignoramisus are. You never screw with people who prepare your food.

Hey F & R people, how many boogers have u eaten and how many ounces of phlegm have you drunk over the years because you’ve treated these people like shit? Just asking.

Pass it on. F & R Auto Sales in Westport, MA = Not Good People F & R Auto Sales in Westport, MA = Not Good People F & R Auto Sales in Westport, MA = Not Good People F & R Auto Sales in Westport, MA = Not Good People F & R Auto Sales in Westport, MA = Not Good People F & R Auto Sales in Westport, MA = Not Good People F & R Auto Sales in Westport, MA = Not Good People F & R Auto Sales in Westport, MA = Not Good People

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/f-r-auto-sales-in-wesport-ma-employees-proudly-post-video-of-them-being-complete-a-holes-pass-the-word/feed/14Appeals Court Tells Jack O’Brien and Liz Tavares to Stay Home Because They’re Not So Sure a Crime Was Committedhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/appeals-court-tells-jack-obrien-and-lis-taveres-to-stay-home-because-theyre-not-so-sure-a-crime-was-committed/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/appeals-court-tells-jack-obrien-and-lis-taveres-to-stay-home-because-theyre-not-so-sure-a-crime-was-committed/#commentsSat, 10 Jan 2015 04:18:24 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=75222The Probation convictions are not as clear cut as people think. So says a federal appeals court.

…on Friday night, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit said in a brief ruling that“the court is persuaded of a sufficient probability that the appeals present a ‘substantial question’ of law,”..

Keepin fingers crossed.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/appeals-court-tells-jack-obrien-and-lis-taveres-to-stay-home-because-theyre-not-so-sure-a-crime-was-committed/feed/28The Pepe Le Pew Project aka Operation Chat Up Their Womenhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/operation-chat-up-their-women-one-answer-to-frances-muslim-problem/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/operation-chat-up-their-women-one-answer-to-frances-muslim-problem/#commentsFri, 09 Jan 2015 03:49:22 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=75196Personally I have no problem with Muslims. If we were talking about Buddhists I’d sing a different tune. Damn peace-niks. On the other hand the people of France do. Seems like they’ve always had.

Now there’s no need to blame France for this. It can’t help it. It’s full of French people. And you can’t blame the French people for feeling this way either. They can’t help it. They’re French.

So here’s a solution that also works for Italy.

French men should start chatting up Muslim women. Ask them out. Ask for their phone numbers. You’ll be surprised how many will bite. Do this in front of the Muslim boyfriend if necessary. Throw some condescending French at him when he objects. Like Sacha Baron Cohen in Talladega Nights.

Muslim men will go nuts. NUTS! Every woman in a head scarf is open season. Married? Who cares? This is France baby.

If anyone can do it French guys can. (And Italians) (Not the English. (Definitely Not the English)

They’ll eventually close up shop and go home.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/operation-chat-up-their-women-one-answer-to-frances-muslim-problem/feed/3Hey Steve Wynn, This Is Marty Walsh’s House, This Is Marty Walsh’s Town. You Got That?http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/hey-steve-wynn-this-marty-walshs-town-you-got-that/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/hey-steve-wynn-this-marty-walshs-town-you-got-that/#commentsThu, 08 Jan 2015 03:47:00 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=75156I hope my fellow casino geeks out there read the civil complaint Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh filed against the Gambling Commission the other day. Skip through the legal mumbo jumbo and head to the facts. The undisputed facts will make it tough for any judge or jury to say the Everett license is legit. And if they can’t say that then Wynn looses it all.

Walsh’s complaint has two compelling arguments. One has to do with the city boundaries and Wynn’s failure to meet a deadline of identifying his access roads. He needed to cut a deal with the MBTA for some of their land to avoid the Boston land. He didn’t.

So if that argument holds up (could end up in Land Court) then, after years of litigation, Charlestown residents will get a vote. What I read from the complaint it’s legitimate. I’m not saying a guarenteed winner but not a specious attack from a whiney mayor as many of the media’s less astute have been saying.

The other count repeats all the sordid details of the criminals involved in the Wynn deal and their attempts to hide their affiliations because they knew the law said Wynn couldn’t get the license if they were involved.

How do we know the wise guys knew all this? Because they said it on tape, that’s how. The same tape that got them indicted.

Walsh’s complaint also outlines the laws that prevented Wynn from getting the license because of the wise guys. The same laws the wise guys knew and were recorded talking about.

On, and don’t forget how Commissioner Crosby was a former business partner and a friend of the only “non-wise guy” partner owning the Everett land and didn’t disclose it until a year later when the press reported it. Marty walsh didn’t. It’s in the complaint. Crosby stated he didn’t then and still doesn’t see a conflict however he reluctantly recused himself from the Everett vote because of outside pressure.

Ladies and gentlemen that is fucked up.

Sooo my friends the law suit makes a strong and compelling case based on known and undisputable facts that the Wynn license was granted in direct violation of the laws and regulations set-up to keep it on the level.

And when the court is forced to rule as such Wynn is gone. Gone I tell you. Gone

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/hey-steve-wynn-this-marty-walshs-town-you-got-that/feed/14Hey Joyce Linehan! Why Have You Blocked Me From Your Twitter Account? WTF! I Thought We Were Bros Bro. This Is Walsh Adminstration Transparency?http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/hey-joyce-linehan-why-have-you-blocked-me-from-your-twitter-account-wtf-what-have-i-ever-done-to-you-this-is-walsh-adminsiatration-transparency/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/hey-joyce-linehan-why-have-you-blocked-me-from-your-twitter-account-wtf-what-have-i-ever-done-to-you-this-is-walsh-adminsiatration-transparency/#commentsWed, 07 Jan 2015 03:35:27 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=75138Really Joyce? You have a problem with me? I read this nice retweet from David Bernstein of a tweet of yours concerning Roadrunner and low and behold “This user (meaniong you Joyce) has Blocked you (meaning me Joyce) from blah blah blah”.

Is this a declaration of war my good lady? I’m game, but why ? Why? WHY? I thought we had a thing you and I.

Perhaps this was a slip of the mouse on your part and you never intended to hurt me as you have. I’m sure that’s it.

All I ever done is praise you and your cause. And now this! Such petulance.

Say it ain’t so. say it ain’t so.

But if it is so, well, let the games begin.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/hey-joyce-linehan-why-have-you-blocked-me-from-your-twitter-account-wtf-what-have-i-ever-done-to-you-this-is-walsh-adminsiatration-transparency/feed/6Alan Dershowitz a Child Molester? – Man Did I Get Wrecked New Years Eve, I Lost My Memory – Alan Dershowitz Child Molester? – Mayor Marty Suing Wynn Means He Thinks He Can Win – Alan Dershowitz, Child Molester?http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/alan-dershowitz-a-child-molester-man-did-i-get-wrecked-new-years-eve-i-lost-my-memory-alan-dershowitz-child-molester-mayor-marty-suing-wynn-means-he-thinks-he-can-win/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/alan-dershowitz-a-child-molester-man-did-i-get-wrecked-new-years-eve-i-lost-my-memory-alan-dershowitz-child-molester-mayor-marty-suing-wynn-means-he-thinks-he-can-win/#commentsTue, 06 Jan 2015 02:09:23 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=75122Man did I drink last Wednesday. My ole army buddy Sully McFitz and I started throwing them back well before the Today Show was over. I’m not talking Hoda and Kathie Lee, I’m talking the early one with Matt, Al, and babe de jour. So if I did anything to offend anyone well, you know that’s not me and I apologize.

(Remember when he told Mike Barnicle one day in Harvard Square that he loved Asian woman because they are so submissive. Or something like that. Barnicle printed it. Dersh made some noise. May have even gotten some money to shut-up but Barnicle never backed down.

Of course the miscreant Dershowitz fights back by saying he will have the victim’s lawyers disbarred. Baahaha.

So will Alan Dershowitz legacy be that of a sexual deviant? Great lawyer means shit Alan.

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Hey, who has two thumbs and predicted very early on that there would be multiple law suits brought against Steve Crosby and The Mass Gaming Commission?

And I can’t believe Marty Walsh would not sue unless his lawyers (outside big time lawyer – not City Hall lawyers) convincing him he has a winnable case.

Of course the Great Boston Globe does not link to the complaint.

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Alan Dershowitz a child molester? Yes a close friend with a sex trafficker. Alan Dershowitz a child molester?

Everone keep saying that. With a question mark of course. It hasn’t been proven. Just great evidence so far.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2015/01/alan-dershowitz-a-child-molester-man-did-i-get-wrecked-new-years-eve-i-lost-my-memory-alan-dershowitz-child-molester-mayor-marty-suing-wynn-means-he-thinks-he-can-win/feed/1My 1,000th Post. I Win The Bet and Don’t Need This Anymore. Must See Goodbye Videohttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/my-1000th-post-i-win-the-bet-and-dont-need-this-anymore-must-see-goodbye-video/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/my-1000th-post-i-win-the-bet-and-dont-need-this-anymore-must-see-goodbye-video/#commentsWed, 31 Dec 2014 17:55:24 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=75080yes it’s true. This whole EB3 thing was based on a bet with a guy I know from Worcester. His challenge to me one night over Cuddy Sarks and beers at The Wonder Bar on Shrewsbury Street was 1. join a blog and make everyone hate me . (“I can do that”, I said) 2. Post 1,000 entries before January 1, 2015. (What? That’s work and how do I keep from getting banned before I reach a thousand?) 3. Use bad grammer and spelling and don’t be afraid to mix up homonyms. (Now you’re talking.)

So I won. And now I have three free pairs of pants every year for life at Maurice the Pants Man in Kelly Square.

Who’s the fool now? Huh? Yeah, that’s right. Not me.

So folks I leave you with a must see video. A gift of love from me to you. (thanks to Dave Portnoy)

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/my-1000th-post-i-win-the-bet-and-dont-need-this-anymore-must-see-goodbye-video/feed/18Boston Cops Ain’t So Bad – Time To End The Phony Accent Epidemichttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/boston-cops-aint-so-bad-time-to-end-the-phony-accent-epidemic/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/boston-cops-aint-so-bad-time-to-end-the-phony-accent-epidemic/#commentsWed, 31 Dec 2014 04:19:19 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=75075Boston cops are far from the worst. For the most part they’re actually pretty cool. Remember Occupy Boston? When every other police force in the country was pepper spraying and provoking protesters into arrest our guys were thanking them for the overtime they were getting. They even had a working relationship with the anarchists. Think about that.

Most older Boston cops have similar backgrounds. They were working for a friend under the table in some business and took the police and fire exams plus they had an in at the Gas Company who was pushing the application they submitted. The police called first.

What we don’t want are cops who grew up wanting to be cops (except if father a cop) and couldn’t wait til strut their stuff.

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I blame Jorge Quiroga. Oh sure it was cute, and proper I suppose. He rolled the tongue at “roga” every time. Good for him.

But then the Italians and fake hipsters took it and went wild. Listen, when Vinnie says, “Hey, you know what’s good? My Nana’s (insert random Italian dish here with over the top bad Italian accent)

God I hate that. I think we all should be allowed to give the ole open hand dope slap to the head of any jamoke who talks like you and me but then spits out and accent.

Do Central Americans talk like one of the Bowery Boys when the say “hot dog” or “pizza” or “Brooklyn”?

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/boston-cops-aint-so-bad-time-to-end-the-phony-accent-epidemic/feed/0Quality of Elected Offcials Getting Worse and Worse. Why Would Anyone Want The Job?http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/quality-of-elected-offcials-getting-worse-and-worse-why-would-anyone-want-the-job/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/quality-of-elected-offcials-getting-worse-and-worse-why-would-anyone-want-the-job/#commentsTue, 30 Dec 2014 05:18:30 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=75067Take a look at the state legislature. I dare say that the over-all quality of those running for and getting elected to the house and senate has seriously diminished in the past 20 years. Actually 30 but since the internet took hold it’s gotten much worse.

The gotch-ya atmosphere dominating the media since Watergate has morphed into most “journalists” trying to catch a politician literally and figuratively picking his nose in public. This of course is what gives media entrepreneurs like John Henry, Rupert Murdoch, Pat Purcell, and Dave Portnoy a return on their investments.

So when state reps and state senators are hauled in front of federal grand juries for writing letters of recommendations for jobs and then named as unindicted co-conspirators for writing said letters while the Globe and local media pundits applaud and use it to feather their own caps is there any wonder why we are getting more and more losers, transplanted wealthy wasps who believe their shit don’t stink, youngsters fresh out of college, and more losers running for these jobs.

Get all that?

And of course the local media big shots strutting around this small pond like to tell us how corrupt we are. Are you fucking kidding me? Oh wait. All those speakers.

Sal DiMasi took money. Corrupt. (even though he doesn’t believe it)

Tom Finneran indictment was a joke but Finneran knew he was getting railroaded and did the right thing and plead. He never received money.

His perjury was constructed out of testimony. He was targeted and tracked down by a US Attorneys Office that worked for George W. Bush and was told to indict Democratic politicians. I’m sure you all remember the mass resignations of U.S. Attorneys because of this. Unfortunately the local media didn’t give Finneran a break when this was reported. It contradicted the narrative they had already invested in.

Charley Flaherty plead to a tax cheating indictment because he stayed at someone’s house on the Cape for a week or two without paying rent. The IRS considered that income and said he was a criminal because he didn’t pay taxes on it. Yes the owner was a lobbyist but there were no laws against it.

Anyway Flaherty plead but another rep who had similar charges fought it and the court said as a matter of law it was not a crime.

Wow. We make old time Chicago and Tammany Hall look like the Wellesley Women’s League.

The frauds at the Globe perpetuate this shit and that’s why it is almost impossible to find quality people to take out papers and then do what needs to be done to win.

Can you believe the incoming governor needed to (or felt he needed to) make the obtuse, unimaginative, wealthy, right wing, semi-tea party, just wants to be famous, Karyn Polito his Lt. Governor because she solved problems with a core constituency he needed to get elected.

The gotch-ya mindset has moved inside the two institutions especially the House. The minority leader seems to mimic Howie Carr and point fingers at the entire party when one member has a problem. As if the Speaker and other Dems hand pick their fellow members.

It’s an easy rhetorical device used to fool idiots and it’s becoming the norm. Take a large group of people, like state legislators, and then let statistics and demographics take hold. Wait for the bad apples to appear or ones who are easy targets and use selective and misleading facts so it appears to the public as acceptable behavior and the norm for most the members.

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Run Liz Run

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/quality-of-elected-offcials-getting-worse-and-worse-why-would-anyone-want-the-job/feed/24Why Did The Globe Have To Kill This Bryon Hefner Kid? He Doesn’t Deserve Thishttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/why-did-the-globe-have-to-kill-this-bryon-hefner-kid-he-didnt-deserve-that/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/why-did-the-globe-have-to-kill-this-bryon-hefner-kid-he-didnt-deserve-that/#commentsTue, 23 Dec 2014 04:48:07 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=74965Let’s put things in perspective here. This Hefner kid is 26 and the Senate Prez is much older. Too much older. That’s great gossip. But that’s all it is. The kid’s on the flamboyant side. How salacious. And he was a royal pain in the ass. Big fuckin’ deal!

How dare The Senate President not banish his partner to a giant hole he dug in his basement? How dare the Senate President take him to some vacation island with other senators and spouses? How dare Stan keep his relationship?

Oh sure this is a great something to have on the conversation list for Christmas Dinner; the Patriots, North Korea and The Interview, the Olympics, the dancing dog currently going viral, the Pats again, and Stan Rosenberg’s boyfriend. It will only take that one loud uncle at the table who usually argues with someone before passing out to know this story and for once have something interesting to say. For once everyone will be all ears.

George Regan is not a lobbyist. That’s not his thing. His thing is to get people and businesses mentioned in the media. He does this by being associated with big shots. That’s what his parties are all about.

He loves showing off his big name friends who for the most part are former and current politicians and local media types, to his clients and potential clients. But he’s not a lobbyist. He built his career as a spinmeister for Daisy Buchanans and the like for crissakes. More than he did off Kevin White.

And he is not a lobbyist and neither was Hefner.

Being a politician-sniff, for whatever reasons, is not the same a lobbyist.

We could dissect the forensics of Regan’s business and maybe I could be convinced that his hiring of Hefner crossed ethical lines. Right now I don’t see it.

Anyway, with Regan’s help the kid attempts to go to Florida and put this behind him and redeem his young career. But he Globe said “No. We need to kill you kid. Don’t ask why because nobody knows. All I can say son is we are not good people.”

The one article was more than enough to accomplish what the Globe and Stan’s enemies wanted. Hefner doesn’t deserve this. Neither does Rosenberg. I wish them both the best.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/why-did-the-globe-have-to-kill-this-bryon-hefner-kid-he-didnt-deserve-that/feed/16The Fall River Mayoral Recall Election: Everyone Has It Wrong Except Me, The God of Blue Mass Group – Today’s Major Media Blemishhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/the-fall-river-recall-election-everyone-has-it-wrong-except-me-the-god-of-blue-mass-group/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/the-fall-river-recall-election-everyone-has-it-wrong-except-me-the-god-of-blue-mass-group/#commentsTue, 16 Dec 2014 03:36:34 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=74861I laugh my ass off reading these self-described political smarties describe tomorrow’s mayoral recall election in Fall River as a farce or a joke or ridiculous because the current mayor’s name is one of the candidates to choose from on the ballot if the recall is approved.

“Huh? Ernie, WTF are you talking about? Who the hell can understand what you just said?”

I know. See it’s like this.

Tomorrow is the recall election. The voters have two questions on the ballot.

1. A yes vote id for recalling the mayor. A no vote is to let him stay.

2. If the mayor is recalled whom do you choose to be the next mayor.

Then it lists eight or nine names as replacements. One of them is the current mayor, a chap by the name of Flannigan.

Okay, you have all that? Do you see the problem here?

It’s not that the mayor’s name is on the ballot it’s that they have a contingent election on the same day using the same ballot.

These idiots in the media who see this as a dumb way to do it because the mayor’s name is on the ballot, like the jamokes at Commonwealth Magazine, never fail to miss the point.

The best way for me to explain the Monty Python logic of this procedure is to ask you to close your eyes and imagine you live in Everett where everyone and his brother and sister are big shot locals protecting their turf. (BTW the Fall River recall needed less than a thousand signatures to go forward.)

Because they can get their names on the a contingent vote beneath the recall their is incentive for a few to get the recall signatures (easy) and then go at it in the contingent election. See what I mean? Every faction is voting for the recall in hopes that their guy might capture the small amount of votes to beat out the other candidates in what is essentially a special election.

It’s all about organization and little about the recall issue.

There should be two separate elections. One for recall and if necessary one for replacement. Tough shit if it costs money. Democracy is not cheap.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/the-fall-river-recall-election-everyone-has-it-wrong-except-me-the-god-of-blue-mass-group/feed/8Congrats to Carlo Basile, Governor Baker’s New Patronage Secretary – Artie T. Slowly Raising Market Basket Prices, Employee Benefits Next – Kraft Family Having Orgasms Over Thought of 2024 Olympics in Their Stadiumhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/congrats-to-carlo-basile-governor-bakers-new-patronage-secretary-artie-t-slowly-raising-market-basket-prices-employee-benefits-next-kraft-family-having-orgasms-over-thought-of-2016-olympics-i/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/congrats-to-carlo-basile-governor-bakers-new-patronage-secretary-artie-t-slowly-raising-market-basket-prices-employee-benefits-next-kraft-family-having-orgasms-over-thought-of-2016-olympics-i/#commentsThu, 11 Dec 2014 02:51:44 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=74768So Charley Baker has named East Boston state rep Carlo Basile as his patronage secretary. He calls it something different but it’s the patronage secretary. This is the person who keeps track of the thousand plus appointments the governor makes to boards and commissions and authorities.

Now if the rep from Wellesley was made patronage secretary he’d be getting calls from people interested in the Banking Commission or the board over at UMass Medical.

When you’re the rep from East Boston like Carlo your voice mail is full of locals wanting to be on the barber commission or the state plumbing board.

But anyway, the buck stops at Carlo Basile’s door for all the administrative law judges Baker will appoint.

This should be fun to watch.

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Attention Market Basket shoppers: Have you noticed the climbing prices? I have. Has Artie T. closed the deal yet? I haven’t read anything saying he has. But one thing is sure. His game of using his partners’ share of the profits (not his) to ingratiate himself with the workers, customers and friendly reletives are over.

Game over. The new creditors are watching everything. The prices are already showing it and they will continue to rise. And as for all those benefits and huge profit sharing? Gone. Artie has to play by rules now.

And of course he lost. Remember? His cousins were trying to get him to buy them out for years but he refused. Why should he have? It was easier to continue to steal from them. Then they forced the issue and Artie leveraged everything to come up with the two billion price tag.

That’s a big win for Artie S. and another step towards Artie T. being exposed further as a thief and a fraud.

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Bob and Jonathan Kraft are all giddy about the possibility of owning the main venue for the 2024 Olympics. Their new soccer stadium temporary outfitted for the 70,000 seat site would make the Krafts the landlord which in their hands will be parlayed into the face of the Boston Olympics.

I bet the city can cut a good deal in selling the Krafts the Frontage Road land for the soccer stadium. They probably will work out the contingent Olympic deal in original agreement.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/congrats-to-carlo-basile-governor-bakers-new-patronage-secretary-artie-t-slowly-raising-market-basket-prices-employee-benefits-next-kraft-family-having-orgasms-over-thought-of-2016-olympics-i/feed/93Too Easy To Goof On Stan Rosenberg But He Does Have a Problemhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/too-easy-to-goof-on-stan-rosenberg-but-he-does-have-a-problem/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/too-easy-to-goof-on-stan-rosenberg-but-he-does-have-a-problem/#commentsThu, 04 Dec 2014 16:31:40 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=74662I feel sorry for the dude. Really. Not because of the mess he’s gotten himself into but because of his background, sexual preference, and the culture of the times he’s lived through. Talk about PTS. Why else would the 67 year old man say “screw it” and openly declare his love for a 27 year old? That’s fucked up for anyone of any sexual orientation.

Now that I have that out of the way let me say this story has been told before and will be told again. It was interesting that one of the few pols mentioned in the Globe story was Sen. Tom McGee, the chairman of the state Democratic Party.

McGee’s father, as we all remember, is the late and former House Speaker Thomas W. McGee who was dethroned by his one time good buddy and majority leader George Keverian because of one person; McGee’s secretary and “other woman” Grace Hogan. All she did was piss off members and McGee let her get away with it. That and that alone was what pushed Keverian to do what he did and a majority of members to go along.

Now let’s be fair to McGee here. No he wasn’t gay and he didn’t grow up in foster homes. His excuse was that he lied about his age and joined the Marines in World War II and saw more action than most. The vast majority of men in his unit were killed. He fought at Iowa Jima and two of the other island battles in the South Pacific. Few Marines came home alive or in one piece from the South Pacific after seeing action on three islands He was the real deal.

He championed the little guy. He fought for the elderly and the many others “progressives” fight for today. Except of course abortion.

And he was a fucking nut. Do you think a guy with his background was afraid of anyone? Post traumatic stress aka shell shock affects people in different ways. In McGee’s case he wasn’t afraid of anyone or anything at anytime.

Good guy.

Back to Rosenberg, Stan, it’s not that that the too youthful kid is your proudly displayed sexual trophy. It’s that he’s dangerous to the Senate. And 40 members is a small family compared to the 162 who overthrew McGee. He was removed because the person who was doing you know what to his you know what was an interfering douche bag.

Things had to get really bad for this story to appear and Rosenberg had many a warning and opportunities to stop it before it got this far.

And of course I’m sure it was fanned by some enimies but the bigger story is this kid has interferred with the Senate rythym. Rosenberg may be Senate President a shorther time than he was Ways and Means chair.

BTW, why didn’t his short stint as ways and means chairman 20 years ago work out?

Just wondering.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/too-easy-to-goof-on-stan-rosenberg-but-he-does-have-a-problem/feed/1State Police Need Video Cams on Cruisers! Calling Governor Bakerhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/state-police-need-video-cams-on-cruisers/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/state-police-need-video-cams-on-cruisers/#commentsTue, 02 Dec 2014 20:04:27 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=74616A while back the Globe Spotlight did a ridiculous Pravda like series on the fact that not all drunk driving defendants are convicted. All those freakin technicalities and such. The numbers were not bad at all but the Globe saw blood and money. They even controlled the SJC who sheepishly had an independent investigator try and hook someone. Unfortunately the investigator, unlike Paul Ware, was a lawyer without an agenda who reported back that this is America and wtf is your problem. Or something like that.

Deep within the series is the reason why troopers don’t record motor vehicle stops and booking procedures.

David Procopio, a State Police spokesman, said that videotapes of motorists stopped on the road or being booked at the barracks would miss many of the subtle signs of impairment that troopers routinely observe.

So according to the state police their troopers are too dumb to point out and explain to a jury the subtle signs they observe. What a crock of shit.

I could have sworn that when I originally read this Procopio said videos resulted in too many not guilties. He probably did and they edited the on-line version because it was such an embarrassment.

Anyway folks, do you know how many state troopers have been canned for sexual harassment of female motorists? And that’s the minor stuff.

Here we are talking about body cameras on police when we can’t get the staties to accept 30-year-old technology.

No quid pro quo here with the union. Governor Baker should order the Department of Public Safety to equip state police cruisers and barracks with video and audio devices with requirements that they be used for every stop, booking, and interrogation.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/12/state-police-need-video-cams-on-cruisers/feed/16Two Tragic Deaths – Liz Warren is Not a Progressive – Jay Ashhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/two-dead-white-kids-liz-warren-is-not-a-progressive-jay-ash/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/two-dead-white-kids-liz-warren-is-not-a-progressive-jay-ash/#commentsSun, 30 Nov 2014 18:04:12 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=74578A couple of months ago a kid from one of the nicer suburbs was tragically killed in a car accident. It got a lot of press. The kid played football so there were a few reminders of it this past week in the ubiquitous coverage of the Thanksgiving high school games.

Gut wrenching. The press covered everything. The candle light vigils, the long lines at the wake, the funeral with weeping family and friends exiting the church.

A few weeks ago some Spanish drug dealer shot a white kid from Charlestown dead outside a convenience store on Main St.. His friend was shot too and has a tough recovery ahead. The drug dealer thought he was shooting some other white dudes who pissed him off. Mistaken identity.

Anyone read about this? It got some press but anyone hear about this kid? He went to St. Clements High School in Somerville. He was well liked. He played sports. It’s an unbearable loss to his family? Did you see any of the coverage of the wake and crowded funeral? Did you see his fellow students in tears?

Quick tutorial: Charlestown is one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city. Gentrification has been on steroids there for the past 35 years. As a result there are two kinds of Charlestown residents; the locals are “Townies” and “the yuppies that weren’t born there are “Toonies”.

(In Southie they call the newbies and yuppies “liberals”. If Rush Limbaugh bought a condo somewhere off East Broadway they would call him a “fucking liberal”. Swear to God.)

Now back to being preachy.

Anyway my point is it is just as much about class as it is race. This kid was a Townie. He has a family. Can you imagine if the kid’s parents were Toonies? How about instead of St. Clements he went to Buckingham Browne and Nichols and his mother was a doctor at Mass General and his other mother was judge? Would the media cover it the same way?

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Now that I think about it this is another reason we need Liz Warren to run for president. She sees how the powers that be divide the people to keep them from joining together and forcing the status quo back to an economy that distributes more to working people while taken care of the elderly and disabled.

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Speaking of LIz, It is crazy to market her as a progressive. That’s just today’s nomenclature for “fucking lefty”. The country ain’t up for voting for this season’s Jerry Brown.

Liz asks the questions that right wing nuts, left wing nuts, and everyone in bewteen who isn’t worth more than ten million dollars want asked. Where’s the money going? Why are all regulators chosen from a revolving door of the regulated? Common sense questions. Not pie-in-the-sky abstract bullshit that we’ve been hearing for far too long without results.

Jay Ash, the outgoing Chelsea City Manager and incoming Baker cabinet bigwig, deserves a statue in the middle of Bellingham Square.

I don’t know much about tax rates and budgets and buildings and new hotels and all the other crap he’s being praised for.

But I do know that when he took over the place could have gone one of two ways. The easy way was back to the old days but only worse. There was always someone who could be bought off so the deal, any deal, could be made.

Or the city could continue on the then recently court mandated righteous path.

Easier said than done in the city where bookies and other types were highly respected members of the community, Anheuser Busch refused to build its distribution plant because there were too many hands out (ended up in Meford) and a pompous Brahmin liereary figure described it as the “unmitigated nastiness” beneath the Tobin Bridge.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/two-dead-white-kids-liz-warren-is-not-a-progressive-jay-ash/feed/26Liz Warren HAS TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT! She Doesn’t Have To Win. But SHE HAS TO RUNhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/liz-warren-has-to-run-for-president-she-doesnt-have-to-win-but-she-has-to-run/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/liz-warren-has-to-run-for-president-she-doesnt-have-to-win-but-she-has-to-run/#commentsWed, 26 Nov 2014 18:00:43 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=74548I have no idea why there is push-back against Liz Warren throwing her hat in the ring for president. Oh wait. I do. The Hillary people don’t like it. Well ya know what? Too effin’ bad.

Liz Warren has absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain. She doesn’t give up her Senate seat and gets to take her one woman act on the road where she’ll sing a solo to her opponents tired old chorus at debate after debate after debate. Her message will stand out and get positive feedback causing the other jamokes to move in her direction.

The 2016 Presidential Election is most timely for Lis Warren and her game-leveling agenda.

Watch as the country slowly tunes in. A short video montage showing her grilling powerful big shots using questions and facts material to the issues will stick in people’s heads. Not the usual self-flattering demagoguery we are accustomed to. You know, like Ed Markey.

Anyway, what are the reasons again for her not to to run? Whatr’s that? She’ll lose and then she will have to suffer the consequences?

Wrong Harold Stasson breath.

She will be a force to reckon with. If Hillary wins the primary and then gets elected she will have to deal with Liz, not the other way around. There will be a Liz faction out there, whether they voted for her or not, who will influence Hillary’s policies and appointments.

Except for the Mary Queen of Scotts people, I mean the Hillary people, few see her as the rightful heir to the presidency. And really, let’s be candid here. This isn’t about Liz; it’s about, shhhh, anyone listening? It’s about upsetting Hillary. Shhhh. If they hear us talking like this it will be worse than what Boston College did to those poor souls in Belfast who foolishly trusted them.

Screw Hillary. If she is the impediment to Liz running then two things are called for. 1. Laugh hysterically; and 2. Tell the Hillary people to Scaaaaa Roooooo!

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/liz-warren-has-to-run-for-president-she-doesnt-have-to-win-but-she-has-to-run/feed/57Well We Now Know Where The Olympic Stadium Is Going and To Tell You The Truth I’m Thinking That Maybe, Just Maybe, Hosting The Olympics Ain’t Such A Bad Ideahttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/well-we-now-know-where-the-olympic-stadium-is-going-and-to-tell-you-the-truth-im-thinking-that-maybe-just-maybe-hosting-the-olympics-aint-a-bas-idea/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/well-we-now-know-where-the-olympic-stadium-is-going-and-to-tell-you-the-truth-im-thinking-that-maybe-just-maybe-hosting-the-olympics-aint-a-bas-idea/#commentsWed, 19 Nov 2014 01:03:00 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=74458John Fish says Boston can host the Olympics because all of the buildings (hardware hopefully paid privately) and infrastructure (software moslyt paid by tax payers) are in the pipeline. I should be the first one to knock this and like everyone else my immediate impulse was to laugh and say thanks for wasting my time.

But not now. It appears we have all of the venues accept for the all important Olympic stadium. The housing ie. one huge terstorone fueled orgy known as the Olympic Village, will be a piece of cake. B.U.? Northeaster? Easy.

Today’s Globe reports that the Krafts are looking at property on Frontage Road owned by the City of Boston to build soccer stadium seating 20,000 to 30,000 fans. A while back John Fish, the construction guy with transparent conflicts, said it is possible to inexpensively build another 40,000 to 50,000 of temporary seating above the soccer design which can be removed afte the Big Party.

We can have a soccer team that plays in Revere or Somerville or Foxborough but we can only have an Olympic stadium close to downtown Boston. The Krafts smell an opportunity.

The idea is this will be a walking Olympics showcasing Boston. They’re talking archery on the Memorial Drive side of the Charles near the Longfellow Bridge with beacon Hill in the background. Most of the events don’t get huge crowds. The built-by-then convention center could probably hold half of the lesser events.

I think crew is the only event that has to travel and that will be to Lowell.

And as for the hastle I think we all saw during the Democratic Convention that everyone took the week off. I bet it will turn out that anyone who lives within 495 will stay away unless they have tickets to an event and if so will tale the T.

The parking garages will probably take a hit.

So unlike 25 years ago when Larry Moultar tried to float the idea based on fluff and ego this plan can really work.

But remember the most important four fve words ever spoken folks. “It’s all about the money.”

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/well-we-now-know-where-the-olympic-stadium-is-going-and-to-tell-you-the-truth-im-thinking-that-maybe-just-maybe-hosting-the-olympics-aint-a-bas-idea/feed/10Fred Wyshak Has Little Time To Go Rosewater on John O’Brien and Liz Tavereshttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/fred-wyshak-has-little-time-to-go-rosewater-on-john-obrien-and-liz-taveres/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/fred-wyshak-has-little-time-to-go-rosewater-on-john-obrien-and-liz-taveres/#commentsSat, 15 Nov 2014 03:24:39 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=74407Fred Wyshak worked the probation defendants over pretty hard the past few years and then made several more turns of the rack after the convictions in his heculean effort to indict a fourth speaker of the house and/or a Bulger.

If anyone doesn’t know Fred’s history of using the Bureau of Prisons as his personal torturer to ripen up uncooperative witnesses for his grand jury inqusitions then ask Sal DiMasi or Catherine Gregg.

Put them on a bus for days on end followed by solitary confinement for more days then more bus trips ending in Worcester where the Fred Dog tries to get thm to say bad things about a Bulger and in the probation case asking for a speaker too.

You see Fred showed up on the Boston seen after catching some big fish in NY. He eyed Bill Bulger as the prize and convinced himnself everything Bulger was corrupt. That is all he knows and all he’s worked towards since the late 80′s.

If any of the probation defendants laid out the exactly what they were doing for top criminal defense lawyers and asked for legal opinions regarding criminal exposure they would have recieved back a unanimous opinion that no crimes committed.

Fred Wyshak created a crime that was not there. No need for me to repeat all the legal and factual reasons backing up my claim.

It was a Bulger that brought him into this. Paul Ware wrote that Chris Bulger committed federal crimes. Wyshak came a running. Then the facts were exposed and it turned out Chris Bulger did nothing wrong and Ware adulterated Bulger’s and others’ testimony, including creative editing, to make it appear Bulger was up to no good. That’s the truth.

The SJC made up its mind to get young Bulger but had nothing other than he was talking to fellow target of the investigation Jack O’Brien about how they were getting railroaded. Best it could do was censor him. Means nothing. Just more evidence of the bag job.

Anyway Judge Young denied the defrendants’ motions to stay execution of the sentence pending appeals. That’s actually a good thing because Fred can’t use the time to torture these people before they go to prison and because they’re short sentences he won’t haver the time to physically torture them to the point where they will crack. Sure they will be appearing before another Wyshak grand jury in Worcrster for the sake of trying to shake false testimony out of them against Chris Bulger of Bob DeLeo just like Catherine Greig is being tortured and then hauled into Worcester and asked questions by Fantasy Fred about money that does not exist and where the Bulgers are keeping it.

Once O’Brien is out of jail Fred has nothing. Other than his Whitey Bulger false narritive. And of course the Globe. The man’s obsessions is a problem for us citizens and it should be addressed.

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Run Liz Run

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/fred-wyshak-has-little-time-to-go-rosewater-on-john-obrien-and-liz-taveres/feed/0Howie Carr Put Out To Pasture. Time to Dance on His Gravehttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/howie-carr-put-out-to-pasture-time-to-get-his-professional-obituary-dusted-off/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/howie-carr-put-out-to-pasture-time-to-get-his-professional-obituary-dusted-off/#commentsThu, 13 Nov 2014 03:53:01 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=74380Not surprising Howie Carr’s contract to bore listerners, lose advertisers, and shill branded low-brow junk on WRKO was not renewed. Unlike a few years ago when Howie unsucessfully tried to go back on his word and breached the RKO contract to sign for big bucks with the now deceased WTKK there is no market for him.

Poor bastard. Now that he’s officially on the downslide he’ll have to face the fact that he’ll be rememebered as a Father Coughln/Morton Downey, Jr hybrid with a fantastic memory and super agressive mean streak fueled by intense personal demons. (IMHO)

Howie says he may be back on WMEX. That’s super Howie. Good luck with that but why not give local cable access a chance. Better yet, you’ll get more listerners broadcasting over a CB radio. Think about it.

P.P.S. How long can the Herald afford to keep you Howie? Your columns have really sucked for the past ten years. Seriously dude. Talk about not showing up. Yopu’ve been mailing in your radio and print work for so long you make the average state worker look like James Brown. (Get it? Hardest working man in show business. Get it? Get it?)

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/howie-carr-put-out-to-pasture-time-to-get-his-professional-obituary-dusted-off/feed/6Why Not Elizabeth Warren For President? She Is the Right Person At the Right Time – Boyalston Street Gonehttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/why-not-elizabeth-warren-for-president-she-is-the-right-person-at-the-right-time/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/why-not-elizabeth-warren-for-president-she-is-the-right-person-at-the-right-time/#commentsTue, 11 Nov 2014 04:00:39 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=74330Nobody else comes close to Elizabeth Warren’s courage and credibility in the asking-tough-questions-to-powerful-people department. Nobody.

I’m all in for her and no reason every Democrat and many Independents age 50 and under can’t be either. Nothing against Hillary Clinton but screw Hillary Clinton. She’s four to eight years too late. Electing her president would be a step backwards for the country because of her long-time relationships with those in the status quo.

Have you been down Boylston Street near The Fenway recently? WTF is going on? Where did the street go? It’s all tall glass non-descript buildings. Talk about ruining a neighborhood.

BTW, the Red Sox have interests in a few of these developements which included sweetheart deals for street access. And don’t forget the life time give away of Yawkey Way and Lansdowne St. to the Sox from the City.

Reason I bring it up is we know now from Deval’s eulogy that the ole buckaroo was heavily medicated at differnt times the past year or so. You don’t supposes Lucchino, that two time cancer surviving bastard, got Menino to sign-off on all this when he was doped up? I picture Larry disguised as a doctor sneaking into Menino’s hospital room late at night and having him unknowingly sign the papers giving the Sox ownership of the entire neighborhood.

Hey, the gave him a cane made from a baseball bat. What more do you want from them?

Admit Larry, you know what you did.

Anyway, a great couple of city blocks are gone the way of The First National, Almy’s, and Major Mudd.

You wanna talk about character. Other than five or six hours on 81 days a year the area was old school charm.

Anyome remember Rocky? He was a popular homeless guy. In fact the liquor store at the corner of Boylaton and Jersey St use to put a picture of Rocky in the ads they ran in The Fenway paper. A big picture of old Rock with a huge grin showcasing all of his three teeth, a dirt encrusted unshaven face, stained ripped coat, and God awful shoes.

You could smell the stench coming off the newspaper seeing him stretched out on the sidewalk, with a fifth of Wild Irsih Rose held firmly ove a caption that proudly proclaimed the store as Rocky’s official packy.

I ain’t chittin you.

Now it looks like a mini Park Avenue. Fucking expect to Joidi and Buffy walking out of there with Mr. French right behind carrying an umbrella.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/why-not-elizabeth-warren-for-president-she-is-the-right-person-at-the-right-time/feed/15Sullivan Square Bike Lanes: A Sinister Plot To Thin the Bicyclist Herd? I Think Sohttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/sullivan-square-bike-lanes-a-sinister-plot-to-thin-the-bicyclist-herd-i-think-so/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/sullivan-square-bike-lanes-a-sinister-plot-to-thin-the-bicyclist-herd-i-think-so/#commentsSat, 08 Nov 2014 03:18:10 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=74282Take a look at the new bike lanes in Sullivan Square. You know the place. The circle of death on the Charlestown Somerville line.

If you have seen it you know what I mean. If any cyclist follows the rules of the road allow me to simplify things for when you get to Sullivan Square.

Rather than spending the time and energy trying to ride through the string theory layout I suggest you wait until the biggest truck comes by and then ride head on into it. That will be quicker and a less painful death than what the bike tzar has planned for you.

BTW, i don’t mind cyclists. EXCEPT for that one super dick a-hole who insistes on protecting the herd by riding ten feet outside of everyone else. He, it’s always a he, needs to be roped in. We need a law allowing motorists to clip the bastard. Not hit him directly, but you know, run him off the road and into a dump truck carrying manure or somethign like that. Who’s with me? You just know these people are also dicks in real life. We need this.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/sullivan-square-bike-lanes-a-sinister-plot-to-thin-the-bicyclist-herd-i-think-so/feed/0Rogue Prosecutor Fred Wyshak Convinced Jury That Judge Mulligan Had No Idea Politics Played a Role in Hiring Court Employees When Everyone Knows Mulligan Knew and Played Same Game. Wyshak Now Demands Five Years in Federal Prison for Victimized Defendantshttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/rogue-prosecutor-fred-wyshak-convinced-jury-that-judge-mulligan-had-no-idea-politics-played-a-role-in-hiring-court-employees-when-everyone-knows-he-knew-wyshak-now-requests-five-years-in-prison-for-a/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/rogue-prosecutor-fred-wyshak-convinced-jury-that-judge-mulligan-had-no-idea-politics-played-a-role-in-hiring-court-employees-when-everyone-knows-he-knew-wyshak-now-requests-five-years-in-prison-for-a/#commentsFri, 07 Nov 2014 03:09:39 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=74217Fred Wyshak is out of control and it is a crime that Justice Department has not reeled him in. He created racketeering against Jack O’Brien, a retired deputy in his 70s, and a long time aide in her in 40s. The material element in the indictments was that Judge Mulligan, the person required to sign-off on all O’Brien hirings, was not aware at all that some candidates benefited from having a state legislator recommend him or her for the position. This is not illegal but Wyshalk created a yet unheard of RICO case if the jury believed Mulligan was dupped.

So today he asks for 5 years for the two associates and 6 years for O’Brien.

Ladies and gentelmen this is classic unethical rogue prosecutorial abuse. Fred is torturing these people so they will say whatever he wants to get Speaker Deleo or some other big wig that hasn’t done anything.

This man is a dangerous human being and should be stopped. Why hasn’t he been?

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/rogue-prosecutor-fred-wyshak-convinced-jury-that-judge-mulligan-had-no-idea-politics-played-a-role-in-hiring-court-employees-when-everyone-knows-he-knew-wyshak-now-requests-five-years-in-prison-for-a/feed/3BOMBSHELL! Judge Mulligan Allegedly Perjured Himself So Fred Wyshak Could Convict John O’Brien et al. Judge to Hear Motionhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/new-evidence-shows-beyond-reasonable-doubt-that-judge-mulligan-perjured-himself-so-fred-wyshak-could-convict-john-obrien-et-al/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/new-evidence-shows-beyond-reasonable-doubt-that-judge-mulligan-perjured-himself-so-fred-wyshak-could-convict-john-obrien-et-al/#commentsThu, 06 Nov 2014 15:51:11 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=74175Remember back in the olden days when the probation trial was going on where Fred Wyshak created a crime to get a Bulger and/or the Speaker of House? Remember? Through some bizarre interpretation of the RICO statute a middle manager became a racketeer for kissing up and protecting his turf.

Note: The government’s theory had nothing to do with O’Brien working for the state. The facts could apply to the night shift manager at your local McDonalds.

Remember when Fred Wyshak’s entire case rested on Judge Robert Mulligan testifying that he had no idea patronage went on in the hiring of court personnel and as such he was duped? Mulligan is official victim in the indictment. Not the government or the taxpayer. But because O’Brien didn’t follow in-house procedures (not laws or regulations) he committed racketeering by defrauding Mulligan who, and this is an element of the so-called crime, had no idea this was going on.

It’s like this: the work manuel says work starts at 8:30. People show up at 8:45 all the time. Even the boss. He knows it. Nobody ever says anything.

Then one day Fred Wyshak shows up and says to the boss, “Hey, you have a person here I don’t like. He’a a middle manager and he and his secretary are allowing the workers to show-up at 8:45 everyday. You don’t know anything about that, do you? In fact you’re paying these people to start at 8:30, right? before you answer remember I’m Fred Wyshak and I get what I want no matter who is in my way. Good. Now I’ll need you to testify to this. Okay? Good.”

So this week the defense attorneys filed a motion with an affidavit from a court employee stating she kept a list for Mulligan that was just for people sponsored by Sal DiMasi or Robert Traviligni. The have the list of job candidates which shows and “S” for Sal or a “T” for Trav as the sponsor.

If this is true it means Mulligan could not have been duped. Just like the company boss.

BTW, but very important to keep in mind, patronage is not a crime. Judge Young said so just about everyday during the trial. Nothing illegal for hiring someone solely on the recommendation of the elected official. Never mind being qualified (which the O’Brien hires were, some arguably)

The defendants repeatedly cross-examined CJAM Mulligan on the hiring process he employed with regard to court security personnel. CJAM Mulligan repeatedly denied that members of the legislature influenced his hiring decisions. In particular, he testified that he did not keep lists of people who called regarding candidates. He testified that he ran a merit based hiring process when it came to hiring court security personnel. He denied knowledge of various lists that contained the names of legislative sponsors.3 The overall thrust of his testimony was that his hiring process was not influenced by the people who made recommendations.

However, information recently obtained by the defendants demonstrates that CJAM Mulligan did in fact kept lists of people recommended by those at the highest levels of the Massachusetts legislature and that he saw that those names were passed on to the Acting Head of Court Security to whom CJAM Mulligan had delegated hiring responsibilities.

Now remember folks, Fred Wyshak was promoted recently to head the public corruption unit of the Boston US Attorneys Office. This man is so obsessed with all things Bulger that what we see is outlandish creativity in targeting those who shouldn’t be. The obvious question is what are the real bad guys getting away with? We will never know as long the dangerously misguided Fred Wyshak is calling the shots and using all the fear and intimidation a rogue prosecutor can muster.

Martha Coakley is no more. Rinse and repeat. Martha Coakley is no more. Feels good, doesn’t it? Admit it. One step backward for two forward.

Nobody has to ask Martha for anything. Think about that folks. That’s a good thing.

Evan Falchuk should be remembered as Mr. Blank because 98% of his votes were from people who would never forgive themselves for a Martha or Charlie vote. BTW, who the hell is Evan Falchuk? I can’t imagine being that impressed with one’s self. And I’ve tried.

How about Martha making all the pols come out to watch her concession speech today? Then with them all sitting in front in of her and cameras rolling she kicks the shit out of them for waiting too long before getting the troops out.

Not only did she show weakness by not hanging around another hour or so last night her nasty one dimensional narcissistic personality empowered with the embedded stench of blind prosecutorial abuse is on full display. Finger pointing and all.

Poor Martha. We all know who beat her last night. Tookie, Violet Amerault (from the grave). Tim Cahill, Brian Wallace, and Jack O’Brien. Good job folks.

And please don’t believe the loss was about PAC money. It wasn’t. It was because the candidate was Martha. (Fuckin’ Steve Grossman, total door knob. Strike that. Total door knob with money). If you want to talk about money then you have to include the benefit the media gave the Dem candidates for the lesser constitutional offices because the Repubs didn’t have the money needed to appear as a contender. Chicken and egg sort of thing.

Now we have to deal with Charlie Baker and he’s gonna suck. Doesn’t have the political skills like Bill Weld who kept it together as everything was being taken but the kitchen sink by the Cellucci gang. Now they’re back. Take a look at the boys huddled with Steve Wynn for the Everett casino. They put the band back together only with a new frontman.

And what’s worse is instead of Jane Swift we have Karyn Polito lurking in the background waiting. And btw, this close vote means Charlie owes the right wing populist nut job side of the party. If he won by nine percent – excuse me for a second, baaahahahahah – he could tell them to go pound sand.

Attention Terry Kennedy and the normal people on the Governor’s Council. Watch for some doozies they try to sneak by.

Which reminds me. For all you simpletons who don’t believe we need a governor’s council how would u like Baker anointing judges for life with no pass through? And don’t tell me the legislature can do it. Then your trading everything under the sun for judgeships.

I really liked Martha encouraging young women to run for office during her concession speech. But then I think she blew the sale. She said “look at me. look at Maura Healy, look at Katherine Clark, look at Liz Warren.” Looked like the weekly luncheon for the New England Women’s Basketball Coaches Association. Might have sent the wrong message there Martha. Like, if you don’t, ahem, look like us then don’t bother.

I mean a little blush and eye liner would never kill anyone.

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When will will see one or some or all of the Boston/Revere/Suffolk Downs/Caesars/Mohegan Sun/or someone else get the injunction stopping the Gambling Commission from issuing the Everett license? This week? Next week?

If Revere filed before the election it may have affected the vote in favor of the referendum They don’t want that. And of course a referendum victory would have made it moot. So when do we see them go to court to stop it? This week? Next week?

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Remember folks, martha is gone forever. And that’s a good thing.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/looking-on-the-bright-side-of-election-results/feed/6Menino Didn’t Act Like a Pol – Local Wise Guys Lose With Casinos – Springfield Cops and Firemen Are No Reason To Support Casinos – Charlie is Worse Than Martha, Don’t Forgethttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/menino-didnt-act-like-a-pol-local-wise-guys-lose-with-casinos-springfield-cops-and-firemen-are-no-reason-to-support-casinos-charlie-is-worse-than-martha-dont-forget/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/menino-didnt-act-like-a-pol-local-wise-guys-lose-with-casinos-springfield-cops-and-firemen-are-no-reason-to-support-casinos-charlie-is-worse-than-martha-dont-forget/#commentsSun, 02 Nov 2014 03:06:34 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=73990Back in August of ’93 I had to hit a wake in a Boston suburb where if you didn’t live there you wouldn’t know where it was. It was during Tom Menino’s first mayoral election. A hot summer afternoon in the middle of that campaign season. Who do I see going in ahead of me at this wake far outside of Boston? Acting Mayor Tom Menino/candidate for Mayor Tom Menino. No one, including the family, would have knocked him for not showing up. In fact i bet nobody expected it.

I didn’t know Menino knew this guy (why would I) but i later found out he didn’t know anyone else in the family. He just knew and liked the guy who died. Period. Not the widow or children or siblings. The deceased was not from Boston. I doubt there were two Boston voters in the funeral home.

Point Being: This is when I knew Tom Menino was a good guy (just don’t cross him).

You see folks, Menino didn’t have to go that wake. He probably pissed off the campaign people for giving up two hours of vital campaigning time to say a prayer for a dead guy whose family can’t deliver a single vote.

In fact it’s more important to hit the wake of a family member of the politically connected then that of the main man himself. He can’t do anything for you after he’s dead.

Menino went to the guy’s wake because that is what decent people do and he was a decent man. (Just don’t cross him)

Ninety-nine percent of the politicians would not have attended the wake under those conditions.

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We all lose if the casinos go forward in Massachusetts. Do you think the old time wise guys holding on to their dying traditions and collecting money from the hundreds/thousands of gaming machines inside private clubs, doing a little loansharking, protecting bookies, supplying women, plus some drug business want to see a new paradigm?

But now with these casinos it will be a game changer and bigger bad guys will be coming to push these old timers out of the way and take control of the many opportunities a “destination” casino needs available for it to be successful.

If I was an old Italian with a nice monthly envelopes coming in I would want things to stay exactly the way they are.

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How about the pro-casino ad showing a Springfield EMT and fireman begging you to let Springfield keep its casino.

Ahhhh, is that reason enough to vote against casinos? Fuck the firemen and cops and everyone else on the municipal payrolls who can’t wait to get their stubby little fingers on this money.

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Okay folks, now lets get out there and get Martha elected. Then we can get on with finding the right candidate to run against her in four years. But right now, as far as I am concerned, Martha is a Saint.

Come Wednesday morning we can all come back to earth and remember how much she sucks.

But Charlie is worse by far. Remember that.

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]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/11/menino-didnt-act-like-a-pol-local-wise-guys-lose-with-casinos-springfield-cops-and-firemen-are-no-reason-to-support-casinos-charlie-is-worse-than-martha-dont-forget/feed/2We Should All Cry After Seeing Charlie Cry Tonighthttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/10/we-should-all-cry-after-seeing-charlie-tonight/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/10/we-should-all-cry-after-seeing-charlie-tonight/#commentsWed, 29 Oct 2014 03:07:37 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=73861Let me get this straight. Charlie Baker cried or pretended to cry for a fisherman with two sons for whom he refused college scholarships (approx $400,000.00) so they could instead become fishermen like him and his father before him but the federal fishing regulations are killing the business.

Get me a box Kleenex.

Are you fucking kidding me? Maybe this fisherman should not have acted like the most selfish father in the history of the world and let his kids take the college scholarships.

Anyway, this is what gets Charlie worked up on the campaign trail. I guess the mothers of kids who overdosed or came home in body bags from Iraq and Afghanistan don’t get him as teared up. Or maybe they do but he’s never engaged them.

How about those Republican policies Charlie? On the other hand Dems protecting overfished waters by a dying industry is worthy of a good cry.

So let’s get Martha elected. Then we can watch the disaster of her governorship play out for the next four years. Still better than the irreversible problems, dangerous policies, and questionable people Charlie will bring to the office.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/10/we-should-all-cry-after-seeing-charlie-tonight/feed/23Savvy Election Insight. Not.http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/10/73707/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/10/73707/#commentsFri, 24 Oct 2014 03:17:24 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=73707Yes, I know. After a short hiatus you expect some pithy insight into the governor’s race, casinos, and so on.

But I gotta tell you, I have nothing. Nothing at all. I’m voting for Martha. Will she win? I dunno. Can we trust the polls? I don’t think so, but really, I dunno. Are more people being turned off by Charlie than Martha as we head into the home stretch? I think so, but I dunno.

Low turnout? Sure. Does that mean less conservatives and right wingers or solid Dems and progressives. I dunno.

Will it favor the casino opponents? I think so, but really, I dunno.

No need to waste anymore of your time.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/10/73707/feed/10I Have Seen The Light! We Cannot Allow Charlie Baker and His Welducci Crew To Take Back Control Of The State and All Its Business. The Gaming Commission is Great Example of How These People Workhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/10/i-have-seen-the-light-we-cannot-allow-charlie-baker-and-his-welducci-crew-take-back-control-the-gaming-commission-is-great-example/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/10/i-have-seen-the-light-we-cannot-allow-charlie-baker-and-his-welducci-crew-take-back-control-the-gaming-commission-is-great-example/#commentsTue, 07 Oct 2014 01:59:36 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=73419The other day I ate some hallucinogenic plants and stepped into an isolation chamber a la Altered States. I saw things like I never did before. All at once everything became clear. Everything.

And then I talked to God. I know, God. So I asked Him a question. “God,” I said, “What d ya think, Martha or Charlie?”

And God answered with no uncertain terms. He laid it all out. His Light shone upon me. It was beautiful. Suddenly I knew what God knew thanks to the shrooms and isolation tank.

But then I awoke in Mass General hooked up to all kinds of machines and not remembering a damn thing God said or anything else that happened after our chat. What’s worse is nobody will tell me what I did and how I got there. In fact nobody will even look me in the eye.

Whatever.

Anyway, I was just waiting in line for my chicken parm sub and it hit me. What a fool I’ve been,

We have to get Martha elected. She has to beat Charlie Baker. Now I can hear all you Bmgers in falsetto voices saying, “Exactly Ernie, you now see Martha gets it on the environment, education, women’s rights, and all the things progressives stand for.”

Wrong MassPirg breath!

This casino thing is showcasing the old gang and the disreputable types they don’t mind hanging around with. When Bill Weld calls Charlie Baker for a favor for Steve Tocco or Jim Kerosotis or who knows who else…well…what’s he gonna say?

BTW, Hey Bill Weld. You are embarrassing the family. WTF is wrong with you? Carrying water for Steve Wynn while teaming with Steve Tocco. This is very unbecoming for someone living off the interest of a fortune made hundreds of years ago. Nothing wrong with that. But Jesus Christ, talk about slumming.

Is there any question that Steve Crosby is either dishonest or dumber than a paper clip? Well we can thank Welducci for him. Steve Tocco? Ditto. The entire gaming commission except for the NJ trooper? Ditto.

Martha is a pretty dumb woman and a terrible lawyer but unaware because she is blinded by ego and ambition. As governor she’ll be harmless because she won’t be the boss. She’ll need the legislature and others to blow her nose. And she can’t indict people.

Plus it will be fun to watch her have to answer questions on every subject but prosecuting bad guys.

baker on the other hand refuses to listen to anyone who disagrees with him AND will bring back these slicksters who now will have the Mass casinos to play with. Last time it was the Big Dig, remember? The stole billions.

BTW2 Anyone notice how Commonwealth Magazine mentioned the casino indictments in passing with a link to the Globe story. No headline. Funny, aye?

WGBH Jim and Margery have not even discussed it. (Unless they did today. Did they?)

Soo we know Wynn sends a big donation over to GBH through some grants but what’s he giving the Commonwealth Magaizine people?

The GlobeSox has completely downplayed this story.

Note: This casino thing is great example of the GlobeSox’ bias reporting. See the hypocrisy folks. Clear as the nose on your face. They do it all the time. But if you didn’t know, why would you?

The word has come down from on high at all the local media outlets. Not blaming the reporters, editors, and on-air talent on this one. This about keeping their jobs. IMHO.

Anyway, we need Martha now.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/10/i-have-seen-the-light-we-cannot-allow-charlie-baker-and-his-welducci-crew-take-back-control-the-gaming-commission-is-great-example/feed/2I Was Hoping CRUX Would Be Relevant, Uplifting, and Progressive. It’s Not. CRUX SUCKS!http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/10/i-was-hoping-crux-would-be-relevant-uplifting-and-progressive-its-not-crux-sucks/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/10/i-was-hoping-crux-would-be-relevant-uplifting-and-progressive-its-not-crux-sucks/#commentsFri, 03 Oct 2014 02:35:45 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=73321Ask anyone who received even the tiniest education in an urban or suburban post Vatican II Catholic school and 99% will tell you that all they heard when half paying attention was help the poor, help the disabled, help the old, the sinner, the leper, the prisoner, the lonely. You know, help the worst of the worst. Also don’t leave money or other valuables in your desk on days the public school kids have CCD class.

As for the other 1%, well, ahem, we’ll just skip over the rapes and abuse and such.

So in comes The Boston GlobeSox with CRUX. Great I thought. We have a Pope from South America who spent most of his ministry working with those needing help the most and now there’s a go to place for Catholics and others who believe in the message Pope Francis’ is preaching and want to act on it.

And of course there would be great in depth reporting on the darker side of the Church,

Instead we get something more akin to a Catholic Magazine produced by the girls from Mount St. Joseph in Brighton.

Check out the headlines from the current edition

Calif. Catholics challenge abortion No problem here

I found $400 on the sidewalk in SF, and more than a week later found out it belonged to a visitor who returned to NY. Do I have to Give It Back? Today’s question in this ridiculous “Catholic Advice” column which is more like a morals class for kindergarteners.

Catholic University of America cancels screening of ‘Milk’ again no problem here

Watch: Parrot says the ‘Hail Mary’

Survey: Catholics pray for forgiveness – and their sports teams

Then there is their condescending “Catholic Football” coverage which gives weekly scores of every Division 1,2, and 3 Catholic team in the country. Why?

And how about my friend Margery Eagan. She loves Francis. She’s the first to tell you. But does she get it?

Here’s a taste of her latest column complaining that priests’ sermons are not based in reality.

If you went to Mass Sunday, it’s likely you heard nothing about terrorist plots, ISIS, air strikes in Iraq and Syria, what Pope Francis thinks about them. Ditto the scary spread of the Ebola virus or the climate change summit at the UN warning that time is running out — and what Francis thinks about all that.

Can you believe this? margery wants her sermons to be a weekly Fox News summary and have the flock focus on shit.

All this woman does is bitch bitch bitch like a an impatient Brookline mother telling the Starbucks’ barista to hurry up because she’s double parked and has to pick her kid up at the Montessori school.

I’m still waiting for stories on people, nuns, programs, and parishes working Pope Francis’s message everyday. Instead we get a publication when looked at in total is a condescending and illl-informed piece of smartly packaged garbage.

Pieces of clay get it. Why can’t the Globe$ox?

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/10/i-was-hoping-crux-would-be-relevant-uplifting-and-progressive-its-not-crux-sucks/feed/7Holy Effin’ Sh!t! Feds Just Indicted Steve Crosby’s Former Business Partner’s Business Partners For Doing What It Is That Everett Does (Hey Globe$ox, Why No Link To The Indictment?)http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/10/holy-effin-shit-feds-just-indicted-steve-crosbys-former-business-partners-business-partners-for-doing-what-it-is-that-everett-does-hey-globeox-why-no-link-to-the-indictment/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/10/holy-effin-shit-feds-just-indicted-steve-crosbys-former-business-partners-business-partners-for-doing-what-it-is-that-everett-does-hey-globeox-why-no-link-to-the-indictment/#commentsThu, 02 Oct 2014 16:58:32 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=73300Was I only the only person with an opinion who suggested some wise guys have their vice-grips (get it? “vice” grips) on the Everett/Wynn deal?

Yeah, That’s right. I’m going all Steve Tocco/James Franco on this. I am sooo gooooood! Fuck you and you and you and you and…….

BTW,

The anti-casino people better use this indictment to the max. It is a gift from the Moakley Building. A huge gift. So huge it can’t be wrapped. They just put an over-sized novelty bow on top so you know it’s a gift.

A hearty congrats to the people who did this. The ones down there who g to work everyday with the best of intentions and stay as far away as they can from the Fred Wyshak type influences.

Tocco kept telling Wynn none of [the problems] would matter. What mattered was the billionaire had deeper pockets and could deliver a more ambitious project.

“They thought politics would matter. They thought public opinion would matter,” said Tocco. “They were wrong.”

Money mattered, right Steve? Money Money Money. And then some more Money. And Everett mattered too. And Mr. Lightbody mattered. And Steve Crosby determining the “Wow Factor” (whatever the fuck that is) mattered. And Crosby’s former business parter partnering with wise guys to profit from the Everett deal mattered, or did it?

For no other reason people should vote for the anti-casino referendum just to see this Welducci creation lose some swagger.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/check-out-this-wet-kiss-again-to-steve-tocco-and-ml-strategies-mintz-levin-for-being-the-self-proclaimed-smartest-man-in-boston-right-now/feed/0Hey Kevin Cullen, You’re Being Served! Accusing Bill Bulger of Hiding Money for Whitey? HMMM. I’m Suggesting You May Be Paid By The Feds? Do You Get Envelopes From Wise-Guys? Your Obsession Is Past Bizarre and Now Officially Troubling. It’s On!http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/im-calling-out-kevin-cullen-for-accusing-bill-bulger-of-hiding-money-for-whitey/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/im-calling-out-kevin-cullen-for-accusing-bill-bulger-of-hiding-money-for-whitey/#commentsTue, 30 Sep 2014 15:52:38 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=73219Kevin Cullen is being served.

The piece of phony trash from Malden who, like a yuppie, moved to South Boston as an adult… (Hey Kevin, it does not matter that you have relatives there. Your Southie schtick is much worse than the kid who went to first grade at Gate of Heaven and then moved to Rockland where as he gets older his “Southieness” increases dramatically until he thinks he’s fucking Pat Nee)… where was I?…oh yeah…wrote a column today strongly suggesting that Whitey told family members, and most likely Bill Bulger, where all the millions are he’s supposedly hidden.

He’s begging the evil doer Fred Wyshak to make sure he continues to torture this particular family. Not Pat Nee, the gangster serial killer currently running the Southie rackets with protection from Fred Wyshak, The FBI,The Globe, and Kevin Cullen. Not Pat Nee’s family.

Not John Martorano, the gangster serial killer who served 12 years for 22 murders, paid large sums of taxpayer monies, and allowed to keep all his ill-gotten gains. Not his family either. Martorano is also protected by the feds.

Should I mention Kevin Weeks?

Cullen’s disabling myopia when it comes to these characters coupled with this glaring unhealthy obsession makes the normal person ask the obvious. Is anyone paying him besides the Globe? That makes sense to me. Much more than the Bulgers know about shitloads of cash somewhere that if existed would be virtually impossible to use. All bills from the 70′s and 80′s.

Nee and Martorano are Top Echelon Informants. They get to do what they want as long as they tell the feds things they like to hear.

REMEMBER THIS:

1. John Connolly is in prison for telling Whitey that John Callahan, a coke infused wise guy who was in on the murder of Roger Wheeler,, was an informant. That got him killed.

2. Kevin Cullen and The Globe, at the urging of corrupt FBI agent John Morris, wrote that Whitey Bulger was an informant with the expectations it would get him killed. That’s why Morris wanted it printed.

Kevin Cullen admitted in an NPR radio interview that his expectations were Whitey would be murdered as a result of the Globe’s disclosure and he was surprised when he wasn’t.

Think about that when you read the garbage spewing from Cullen and The GlobeSox.

It’s worth repeating.

Kevin Cullen admitted in an NPR radio interview that his expectations were Whitey would be murdered as a result of the Globe’s disclosure and he was surprised when he wasn’t.

The Sisters of Providence who taught the young Kevin at the Cheverus Catholic Elementary in Malden can’t be happy that Kevin willingly and knowingly committed a material act with the expectation it would result in a murder.

Too many campaigns get so caught up in number one they forget about number two. And too many campaigns get so caught up with number two they ignore number one to their detriment.

The anti-casino people have number one wrapped up. They just have to make sure they vote.

Number two I am not so sure of. They can’t win without number two. The numbers are showing it. There needs to be outreach to voters who would be sympathetic to their cause if they knew certain facts other than the same old boiler plate arguments that keep the base together.

Independents, Republicans, Libertarians, and less progressive Dems who do not ft the stereo-typical anti-casino voter NEED TO BE TOLD of the plain-as-the-nose-on-your-face shenanigans and appearance of corruption occurring at the Gaming Commission and in Everett.

If anything, what these people don’t want is another Massachusetts stereotypical corrupt institution.

Here’s another rule everyone knows. Campaigns are all about additions. Not sunbstarctions. Keep adding voters without losing any. The referendum has not seen an increase in support from beyond its base and it probably won’t unless they affectively spread the word.

Time to build a specific message for a specific audience. Targeted mailings and media buys showcasing a few facts that lets the too busy to notice electorate know that only a fool would not wonder if the Commission has been corrupted.

The Atlantic City/ addiction/neighborhood blight stuff is the meat potatoes but not everyone is a meat and potatoes type of voter.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/anti-casino-folks-need-to-reach-beyond-their-base/feed/9Attn. Activists: Why Waste Your Time on Martha Coakley When You Can Be Helping the ANTI-CASINO Referendum?http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/attn-activists-why-waste-your-time-on-martha-coakley-when-you-can-be-helping-the-anti-casino-referundum/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/attn-activists-why-waste-your-time-on-martha-coakley-when-you-can-be-helping-the-anti-casino-referundum/#commentsSat, 27 Sep 2014 23:11:55 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=73142Remember people, there is no turning back if this referendum is not passed. Now you all know it’s not the end of the world if Martha doesn’t win. That’s because deep down you know she can’t be trusted and will probably screw you in the end.

The people running the referendum campaign can really use your help. Please go to this webpage and sign up to do what it is you do. BMGers are some of the best organizers and political canvassers in the country. Time to sweep in and teach the powers who be who the real boss is.

Remember, there is no turning back if this doesn’t pass.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/attn-activists-why-waste-your-time-on-martha-coakley-when-you-can-be-helping-the-anti-casino-referundum/feed/23Time to Reflect on Who Martha Coakley Is and Volunteer For the Anti-Casino Referundum.http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/time-to-reflect-on-who-martha-coakley-is-and-volunteer-for-the-anti-casino-referundum/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/time-to-reflect-on-who-martha-coakley-is-and-volunteer-for-the-anti-casino-referundum/#commentsWed, 24 Sep 2014 17:20:31 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=73057As Election Day approaches and seasoned progressive moderate Democrats who usually get involved in campaigns may want to spend their time, energy, and experience working to win the casino referendum rather than a candidate for whom you lack excitement and expectations. Remember Dems did better with Bill Weld than they did with Ed King and nobody has a clue what Martha will do.

Below are excerpts from a 2010 Wall Street Journal article detailing Martha’s abusive, unethical, and at time illegal (a plea bargain based on a defense attorney walking away from a case)role in the Fells Acre. Couple this with her absurd reasoning in denying the petition’s right to be on ballot which the SJC immediately rectified.

The story of the Amiraults of Massachusetts, and of the prosecution that had turned the lives of this thriving American family to dust, was well known to the world by the year 2001. It was well known, especially, to District Attorney Martha Coakley, who had by then arrived to take a final, conspicuous, role in a case so notorious as to assure that the Amiraults’ name would be known around the globe.

The Amiraults were a busy, confident trio, grateful in the way of people who have found success after a life of hardship. Violet had reared her son Gerald and daughter Cheryl with help from welfare, and then set out to educate herself. The result was the triumph of her life—the Fells Acres school—whose every detail Violet scrutinized relentlessly. Not for nothing was the pre-school deemed by far the best in the area, with a long waiting list for admission.

All of it would end in 1984, with accusations of sexual assault and an ever-growing list of parents signing their children on to the case. Newspaper and television reports blared a sensational story about a female school principal, in her 60s, who had daily terrorized and sexually assaulted the pupils in her care, using sharp objects as her weapon. So too had Violet’s daughter Cheryl, a 28-year old teacher at the school.

But from the beginning, prosecutors cast Gerald as chief predator—his gender qualifying him, in their view, as the best choice for the role. It was that role, the man in the family, that would determine his sentence, his treatment, and, to the end, his prosecution-inspired image as a pervert too dangerous to go free.

The accusations against the Amiraults might well rank as the most astounding ever to be credited in an American courtroom, but for the fact that roughly the same charges were brought by eager prosecutors chasing a similar headline—making cases all across the country in the 1980s. Those which the Amiraults’ prosecutors brought had nevertheless, unforgettable features: so much testimony, so madly preposterous, and so solemnly put forth by the state. The testimony had been extracted from children, cajoled and led by tireless interrogators.

…

If the current attorney general of Massachusetts actually believes, as no serious citizen does, the preposterous charges that caused the Amiraults to be thrown into prison—the butcher knife rape with no blood, the public tree-tying episode, the mutilated squirrel and the rest—that is powerful testimony to the mind and capacities of this aspirant to a Senate seat. It is little short of wonderful to hear now of Ms. Coakley’s concern for the rights of terror suspects at Guantanamo—her urgent call for the protection of the right to the presumption of innocence.

If the sound of ghostly laughter is heard in Massachusetts these days as this campaign rolls on, with Martha Coakley self-portrayed as the guardian of justice and civil liberties, there is good reason.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/time-to-reflect-on-who-martha-coakley-is-and-volunteer-for-the-anti-casino-referundum/feed/8“The Boston GlobeSox”, a Twofer – Don’t Trust The Casino Pollshttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/the-boston-globesox-a-twofer-dont-trust-the-casino-polls/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/the-boston-globesox-a-twofer-dont-trust-the-casino-polls/#commentsWed, 24 Sep 2014 00:24:25 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=73038And the winner of the renaming of the Boston Globe contest is a twofer. “The Boston GlobeSox”. Can be used for both The Globe and the Sox. No need to differentiate. Everyone knows what you’re talking about.

Agnes: Did you see in the GlobeSox today that Marian O’Shea’s cousin Edna’s husband Sam died?

Helen: Oh dear. No I didn’t. I just finished checking the box score for the GlobeSox game and was about to check the death notices when you called. What a shame. So sudden. He wasn’t even 95 yet. Let me go Agnes . I need to tell Evelyn, and Mae, and Ester, and Gladys, and Sylvia, and Hazel, and Bambi. You know Sam was pokin’ Bambi on the side, right?

Agnes: Yeah, I know. That’s our Bambi.

And scene

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I’m not trusting these casino polls. It’s like they’re trying to tell us,

“Hey folks, only losers are voting for the casino repeal. You don’t want to be a loser do you? DO YOU?”

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/the-boston-globesox-a-twofer-dont-trust-the-casino-polls/feed/2Today’s Globe Front Page An Orgy Of $elf-Interest, Red Sox PR and Hypocrisy. Here’s the Real Tommy Harper Story – BOSTON GLOBE NAMING CONTESThttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/todays-globe-front-page-an-orgy-of-elf-interest-and-red-sox-pr-and-hypocrisy-heres-the-real-tommy-harper-story-new-contest/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/todays-globe-front-page-an-orgy-of-elf-interest-and-red-sox-pr-and-hypocrisy-heres-the-real-tommy-harper-story-new-contest/#commentsSun, 21 Sep 2014 17:58:13 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=72970Okay folks no need to repeat the blinding conflict of interest and criminal influence in the Everett casino deal. The Globe felt the same in the big wet one it gave Steve Wynn. Anyone have a guess how much ad dollars John Henry’s new ShamWow guy/CEO got Wynn to commit to?

The second story is a repeat of the long Tommy Harper narrative that has now evolved in to Yawkey Way being a plantation until Henry/Werner/Luccino arrived.

Now before everyone jumps on me I’m not here to say the Sox didn’t have problem. They did. But for too many reasons I do not believe Tom Yawkey was the racist the narrative writers have been trying to depict for decades.( He was from Detroit, not the South. He had huge land holdings in the Carolina’s among shit loads of other investments, and he like to go there to hunt, chill, and drink)

Were people under him who he allowed to run the place during the 30s, 40′sand 50s? Of course there were.

Dick O’Connell, the G.M. who brought us the 1967 Impossible Dream went to his grave saying Yawkey was always on him to get more Black ballplayers. (O’Connell then went on to trade Sparky Lyle to the Yankees for Danny Cater so I understand if you take what he says with a grain of salt)

Now to Tommy Harper.

Here’s what happened. The Sox use to train in Winter Haven, Florida. It’s in Central Florida in the middle of nothing accept orange groves, cattle ranches, and old school southern people If you catch my drifty.

When they first went their in the 60s it was typical of where many other teams would go. The Tigers are still in nearby Lakeland. The idea was to get the players in the middle of nowhere where they can’t carouse like usual and forced to work on getting in shape.

The Red Sox clubhouse guy was Vince Orlando. The only bigger legend was his brother Johnny Orlando. There isn’t a Ted Williams book out there that doesn’t mention Johnny.

When he died Vince took over. There isn’t a Carl Yastrzemski book out there that doesn’t mention Vince.

Oh, and did tell you they both had miserable dispositions. That worked well for Johnny because he was a man of his times in the strange world of baseball.

As times changed not so good for Vince. Women in the clubhouse? He wasn’t a bad guy. Just a product of his generation.

He eventually was forced into retirement (he was pretty old then) when he physically pushed the late Globe columnist Larry Whiteside out of the clubhouse. Whiteside was probably the only Black member of the Boston Baseball Writers Association. So that didn’t help matters but Vince was being Vince and he was a writer that was suppose to be gone.

Okay, so in those days the clubhouse guy was the gatekeeper, mother, and janitor for the team. Everything went through him. Casual, but you get it. So the Winter Haven Elks Club, whites only, had a restaurant where they let the ball players eat for free. Vince always made sure they Knew about it and gave the white guys the passes.

Yeah, I know. I’m not here to defend it.

Anyway, as Winter Haven grew and added Pizza Huts and crap chains normal people didn’t eat at the Winter Haven Elks Club. The pass was more like a piece swag that few people used and most didn’t know it was segregated. Except Vince.

Now we’re in the 1980s and Harper is a pre-season coach and a minor league scout. He complains. It stops.

Now the next part is most important. To me we missed a rare opportunity to have a discussion on race that went beyond the pointing of fingers.

Harper got depressed. He was bummed because the Sox made him feel like less of a man. That pisses people off and each is affected differently. He got into a huge funk. He stopped showing up games he suppose to scout. That’s bad. He basically checked out the latter part of the season.

Now comes Lou Gorman. The likable old school baseball man who didn’t really deal with the Elks thing and to him it was a closed issue starts making his personnel moves for the next season. Managers, coaches, and scouts at all levels. And…. for every job available there are 50 friends with great resumes pounding on your door.

So Lou goes through his list and sees Harpers performance and it’s a no brainer. Harper’s gone.

Now comes Tommy Harper’s complaint with the MCAD and everything comes out in the wash. The Sox negotiate a deal with MCAD and The Boston Chapter of THe NAACP. Diane Wilkerson helped broker it.

The team then went full cycle in filling the front office with qualified African Americans. Lou Gorman promoted a Black woman who was an attorney for the team to assistant general manger. It made national news. Lawyers were beginning to infiltrate the baseball side of business and Lou needed her.

Harper came back to the team and then wen to other teams and eventually came back to the Sox where he bagged dan Duquette paying him $30,000 less that fellow coach Mike Stanley. Highly doubtful that was racist. More like cheap bastard Duquette getting away with saving thirty grand.

You guys have all that. Okay, because what happened next was John Henry bought the team and said he was going to change the way things were done around there.

If what he meant by that was an increase in front office and clubhouse staff by over 100% to over 70 employees and only two of them are African American. One is the women attorney Gorman promoted and another is a clubhouse guy also hired years before Henry bought the team. Gone are the many other African Americans working there the years prior to new ownership.

I’ve been following this for years now and have made a point to do the head count for BMGers most springs showing this hypocrisy.

Anyway, tell me that front page story wasn’t another gift for the boss. Making sure the narrative stays alive that John Henry freed the slaves on Yawkey Way.

CONTEST I need a satirical name for The Boston Globe. I have nothing. They’re such hypocritical unethical dickweeds and I’m stumped. So I’m asking for your help.

If you have a suggestions for a name more deserving for the Globe please comment with it or send me a tweet at ErnieBoch3.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/todays-globe-front-page-an-orgy-of-elf-interest-and-red-sox-pr-and-hypocrisy-heres-the-real-tommy-harper-story-new-contest/feed/21Biggest Game of Our Lives on November 4th Against Casinos, Media, Mobsters and Politicians. We Can Beat The Big Boys. Have to Work as Onehttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/biggest-game-of-our-lives-on-november-8th-against-casinos-media-and-politicians-we-can-beat-the-big-boys-have-to-work-as-one/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/biggest-game-of-our-lives-on-november-8th-against-casinos-media-and-politicians-we-can-beat-the-big-boys-have-to-work-as-one/#commentsThu, 18 Sep 2014 17:45:59 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=72880Okay, bring it in. C’mon, gather ’round. Take a knee. Smoke ‘em if you guttem. Put down the goddamn cell phones before I smash every last one of them. I need you all to listen. It’s important.

In few weeks time we will playing the biggest game of our lives. I don’t care where you go from here and what you do in life. If you are victorious on November 4th and pass the ant-casino referendum you will have a beaten the largest and most powerful and moneyed group of individuals, institutions, wise guys and government entities ever assembled for for a campaign. Their game plan is to mislead and divert voters’ attention to the same old pro and con casino arguments.

So what we have to do is not let these people hi-jack our campaign. We must channel former MA Governor Ed King in his victorious 1978 Democratic primary win over Mike Dukakis by repeating our short concise complaint in every interview, speech, and advertisement. Corruption is running amok at the Gaming Commission!

If King mentioned the weather the media would have written about that rather then his issues. So he kept his answers short and interjected his three things at each opportunity. And he was great at finding the opportunities.

I am in favor of the anti-casino amendment and urge you to vote for it because

“The Massachusetts Gaming Commission is corrupt.”

Say this over and over again.

Getting all the facts into a ten second sound bite can’t be done. So you use it to name the names of the people who agree that the process has been corrupted.

Mayor Marty Walsh, former attorney general Scott Harshbarger, former state inspector general Gregory Sullivan.

Start making a list. Who out there with cred wants to help?

Now I know what you are thinking. You’re saying this is another over-the-top the world is coming to an end speech by Coach to get us pumped.

To that I say, “Wrong Title IX breath.”

Immediately after Wynn was granted the license our opponents pounced and everywhere we looked we saw flawless execution of their game plan.

According to them nobody saw this coming. Suffolk Downs had the whole thing in the pocket. They had Bobby DeLeo using the speaker’s office to push it behind the scenes. Then they hired top guns Tom Riley and Doug Rubin. Add in the jobs and the history it was a can’t miss.

Now we all know this is not true. Anyone following this, like the press says they’re doing, saw the writing on the wall for Wynn months ago. Mayor Walsh’s letter makes that clear.

So rather than we repeat the the facts uncovered so fars here is a link to the Mayor’ letter. (the letter itself is not important. Skip it and go to page 3 where he states the facts that make it clear as clear that the mob has gotten their grubby hands in the commission and the commissioners are allowing it or they are dumb patsies.

The other part of the false narrative reported by the media is to ignore the power behind Wynn. Suffolk Downs had present day Steve Grogan and Tim Thomas while Wynn had Tom Brady and Tukka Rask.

Bill Weld and Steve Tocco were Wynn’s local faces. Everyone on the board accept for the NJ state trooper has a tie to Weld/Cellucci. That administration had boatloads of suspicious characters hanging around because Bill Weld handed the day to day operations off to Cellucci who had close to a million dollars in gambling debt. This of course allowed a bunch of people to do a bunch of things as everyone looked the other way and lead to the feds declaring the Big Dig the largest rip off of taxpayers ever.

Their main capo running the Big Dig, Jim Keriosotis, pleaded guilty to tax evasion last week and soon will be in the can. It wasn’t his first conviction you know.

You need to know all this. You need to know your facts. Use them but be aware that the media will use the weakest point and spin it. Don’t discuss the governor’s or the attorney general’s or any other politician’s role.

Okay, you have all that? Good. Because you need to know that we can’t win this thing with conventional advertising and media awareness.

No. Just about everyone needed to effectively run the traditional game plan is playing for the other team whether they admit or not.

Hire the most creative ad people available. It will take good money to get their work viewed, heard,and read with all the noise from other campaigns. But it can be done.

Don’t let the media use people presenting the traditional anti-casino argument as the norm.

You cannot win without GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNING and SOCIAL MEDIA. The kind we all know you are capable of doing when you put your mind, body, and soul in to it.

Canvassing and social media screaming about the corruption. Its not about the social effects of gambling or the economics.

This campaign is about one thing. Corruption in Massachusetts government.

The goods news is King Arthurs will re-open and I hear they’re getting some new out of town talent plus they’re replacing the urinals with the automatic flushers. Nice. Real nice.

Now the referendum will have the face of Steve Wynn.

How bad did Jim McHugh set up his fellow commissioners to vote for Wynn then after they committed he bailed? I can’t wait until he is deposed.

These’s still a few acts left in this play.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/steve-wynn-gets-license-3-%e2%88%921-vote-judge-mchugh-votes-for-revere/feed/36Globe Editorial Page Editor Peter Canellos Leaving. Another Renee-Loth-I-Don’t-Pimp-For-Casinos Move? Why Today Peter? Why Today?http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/breaking-news-globe-editorial-page-editor-peter-canellos-stepping-down-casino-related-probably/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/breaking-news-globe-editorial-page-editor-peter-canellos-stepping-down-casino-related-probably/#commentsMon, 15 Sep 2014 16:43:12 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=72759Long time Globie and editorial page editor Peter Canellos is leaving his post. Why? The last big self-removal from the editorial board was Renee Loth who was sickened over her boss’s endorsement of casinos. She actually thought she worked for people who were on the level. What an education she got.

And now smack in the middle of the Globe’s endorsement of Steve Wynn’s blatant goodfella’s Everett deal in return for big advertising dollars Canellos realized he couldn’t look himself in the mirror every morning if he continued to be one of the well paid and well hidden flacks saying the manure called Wynn’s Everett Casino is actually gold. IMHO

BTW folks, once these people get their grubby hands in our state with a lucrative and powerful casino license they then become a force that politicians have to reckon with. You’s start seeing Wynn executives, their business partners, and lobbyists at every two bit function that use to be held at Anthony’s Pier 4.

Like David Cameron telling Scotland there’s no going back, Massachusetts voters need to know that after Wynn and the boys get their license there’s no going back.

P.S. How about the farce called a hearing the Gaming Commission is conducting over at the Boston Teachers Union Hall right now.

P.S. 2 The commission is made up of two former Cellucci guys with no background close to what is needed. One is a former Springfield city councillor. Then we have Jim McHugh seasoned from the mean streets of South Dakota, Bingham Dana, and the sanctimonious life of a Mass Appeals Court Judge. At least there’s a former N.J. state trooper who worked investigating the Atlantic City scene. She’s the only one I trust but then what do I know? She was a cop so the integrity thing is a coin flip if you know nothing about the person.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/breaking-news-globe-editorial-page-editor-peter-canellos-stepping-down-casino-related-probably/feed/4Law Suits We Can Expect After Gaming Commission Issues License Decision This Weekhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/law-suits-we-can-expect-after-gaming-commission-issues-license-decision-this-week/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/law-suits-we-can-expect-after-gaming-commission-issues-license-decision-this-week/#commentsSun, 14 Sep 2014 18:17:57 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=72729First Off. Whoever wants to sue the Commission for not playing fair should bring it in federal court. (David, any jurisdictional problems?)

The judges in The Moakley Building are genetically wired to believe anything coming out of Beacon Hill is highly suspect if not criminal. And they ain’t afraid of no governor or attorney general or former fellow MA Superior Court and Appeals Court judge (McHugh) or the local mob or Steve Wynn or Bill Weld or The Boston Globe. You get the picture? (Okay, they are afraid of the Globe because for the most part they’re Ivy League snobs with little life experience but still better than the state judges on this)

Okay. Let’s project to next week, shall we?

1. The Commission grants Steve Wynn the Everett license.

Result:

Caesars adds some facts and counts (if that have not already) to their ongoing and more and more viable suit alleging the Commission committed a fraud upon it in favor of Wynn by orchestrating a contrived situation causing the casino company to withdraw its application. (Note: I would love to see the complaint from Ceasars. It’s public record but I can’t mosey into the clerks office and ask to see it. Too suspicious. So if anyone has a copy of it could you e-mail it to me? I won’t tell where it came from.)

Mohegan Sun sues and asks for injunctive relief stopping the issuance of the license. Can’t wait for that hearing.

Suffolk Downs joins in.

A Charlestown resident or two backed by a newly formed well funded neighborhood group making the case that the Commission erred by not declaring Boston a host a community thereby denying their right to a vote. Seems the more we read about Wynn’s plans and the Commission’s efforts to hide them the more it seems the casino will be in Everett AND Boston.

The City of Somerville for getting screwed o the illegal arbitration process they were forced to participate in.

The City of Chelsea for the same reason as Somerville.

The City of Revere for the same reasons as Somerville and Chelsea plus the same ass-aches as Ceasars Mohegan Sun, and Suffolk Downs have.

The City of Boston but who cares when we have this cast of characters ready to charge ahead.

I think a request for injunctive relief would be successful here.

2. The Commission grants the license to Mohegan/Suffolk Downs/Revere

Wynn and Everett sue because it’s not their fault the state decided to load the Commission with idiots like Crosby and Lynch.

I don’t think a request for injunctive relief would be successful in this scenario.

3. The Commission votes not to grant a license to either applicant.

Everyone accept Chelsea, Somerville, and Boston sues in that version of events.

BTW, if that happens the casino foes still should go forward with the corruption argument because the Commission can always award the license at a later date and that’s probably what they’ll plan on doing. You know, after the heat dies down.

4. The Commission splits 2/2

This would be the best result from the entertainment point of view. Judge McHugh’s video taped deposition would be comedy gold.

5. The Commission votes 2 for Everett, 1 for Revere, and 1 for neither. Or 2 for Revere 1 for Everett and 1 for neither or 2 for one and 2 for neither or..(you get the picture)

I don’t know what that means. Does the winner need at least three votes? Whatever, still lawsuit city.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/law-suits-we-can-expect-after-gaming-commission-issues-license-decision-this-week/feed/5Hey Charlie Baker! Marty Walsh Just Gave You The Issue To Kill Martha With. You Better Get On It Because Nobody Else Willhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/hey-charlie-baker-marty-walsh-just-gave-you-the-issue-to-kill-martha-with-you-better-get-on-it-because-nobody-else-will/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/hey-charlie-baker-marty-walsh-just-gave-you-the-issue-to-kill-martha-with-you-better-get-on-it-because-nobody-else-will/#commentsSat, 13 Sep 2014 19:26:28 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=72692Anyone who has read the facts leading up to where the Massachusetts Gaming Commission is now on issuing a casino license cannot reasonably believe it’s on the level. There is absolutely no difference between the NFL’s intentional avoidance of what happened in the elevator with our state’s politicians and media avoidance of the Gaming Commission’s conflicts and criminal involvement with the Everett site.

The media is reporting the Mayor’s letter to the Commission as nothing more than a bitch and moan on esoteric issues while ignoring the meat of the correspondence in which Walsh tells them he was born at night but not last night and it’s impossible to believe the Everett deal isn’t dirty on up to the highest level.

So here we have the top law enforcement person in the state, a person who also appointed a member t the Commission, ignoring it. Not only ignoring it but bending over backwards to help them by wrongfully trying to stop the initiative petition from going forward.

And we have a governor telling the press yesterday he doesn’t see a problem over there. WTF. Hey dude, you just made it so easy to paint you as a corrupt big city politician.

Do you know why Martha? Do you know why Deval? Because these facts are very easy to understand and your actions ignoring them are easy to follow too. So easy they can be turned into useful 10 second soundbites and 15 and 30 second radio and TV ads that will make people puke.

Hey Deval, rather than running around playing the role of the milquetoast potted plant governor yearning to be President only sticking your head out of the bunker to protect the likes of Steve Wynn and Everett mobsters you should be working on clemencies etc for as many people as possible serving drug related mandatory sentences.

Now to you Charlie. First things first. Stop starring in your TV ads. Stop it! Now! You suck. You’re not likable. Your whiney voice is irritable. People are thinking they don’t want to listen tot hat for four years. Think Steve Tolman.

We don’t care about your family, Swampscott, Bill Weld, or Tufts Health. We don’t care who says you’re a nice guy. Big Deal. There’s hell of a nice guys all over the place.

No, you and the Republican party have to hit Martha and the Dems on the corruption going on under hers and theirs watch and their willingness to allow it. Martha had a hand in creating this commission plus appointed a member. And now she’s not investigating it. Martha should own this issue and it should dominate the race.

Charley, at most there should only be a photo of you in your ads. No talking. No moving. It’s not about you. It’s about your opponnent. Remind people why they dislike Martha because trust me the Dems are going to be selling the soap differently.

And as for you casino foes your ads should be one person after another telling their fellow Ma residents that they were in favor of casinos but watching the corruption taking place in front of our eyes makes them not in favor of casinos in Massachusetts. If we can’t do it right we can’t do it.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/hey-charlie-baker-marty-walsh-just-gave-you-the-issue-to-kill-martha-with-you-better-get-on-it-because-nobody-else-will/feed/42Whose Side Is Steve Crosby Really On? Yours or the Mobsters? Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Thing Going On At The Gaming Commission If You Ask Mehttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/is-steve-crosby-mobbed-up-the-facts-leaves-one-asking-that/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/is-steve-crosby-mobbed-up-the-facts-leaves-one-asking-that/#commentsFri, 12 Sep 2014 17:09:24 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=72626Mayor Walsh’s kick-ass chronological order of events detailing the many infidelities the Gaming Commission is committing with Steve Wynn is a must read. What’s that? You don’t have time? I understand so below is a summary.

A guy named Paul Lohnes and another guy named Gary DiCicco together bought an option on the Everett property. DiCicco was a convicted felon. Seems he was in the habit of burning down buildings he owned for the insurance. Typical wise-guy shit. A few weeks later they brought in another partner named Dustin DiNunzio. Meanwhile DiCicco was was leveraging his in interest all over the place.

After all was said and done the property came under their control with Paul Lohnes owning 50%, the convicted arsonist scam man DiCicco owning 15%, a guy named Anthony Gatteneri controlling another 15%, DiNinzio had 3%, and convicted felon named Lightbody 12%.

As time went on Gatteneri took over DiCicco’s 15%.

Got that?

Now Lightbody, the convicted gangster owning 12.5%, should be called “Lighthead” because he ain’t too bright. Some guys just can’t keep their mouths shout. (Like James “Marsha Clark” McHugh and Steve “Christopher Darden” Crosby)

Lighbody gets himself on a recorded telephone call with a buddy serving state prison time. Who would have thunk the prison records prisoner’s calls? On the tape he’s boasting about his interest in the land and the millions he’s going to make.

This shady group of characters (trust me, if you are willing to partner with DiCicco or Lightbody you’re shady) then got Steve Wynn to take a look for a possible casino.

Now here’s where it get’s good.

In the fall of 2012 (two years ago) Commissioner Crosby learned of the Everett site, Wynn’s interest in it, and Paul Lohnes (see above) 50% interest.

Lohnes name rang a bell of course. (If in fact this was the first he knew of it) The name rang a bell because it was the same Paul Lohnes who is his close friend, former employee, and most important the guy who bailed out his fledging business with a million dollar infusion of cash a few years back making him a former business partner.

Now a couple of months later convicted criminal/property owner Lightbody is again recorded talking to the same prisoner explaining how the law doesn’t allow criminals to profit anywhere in the scheme including ownership in the properrty. As a result, he tells his buddy, that his interest will be double and tripled blinded to hide it from the Commission.

Meanwhile the Boston Business Journal was reporting that DiCicco, ( the felon that was “dropped” from the ownership group) really wasn’t dropped.

You guys still with me here?

Okay, in December 2012 Wynn signs the agreement for the Everett land. Right away Lightbody, the other convicted felon, brags to his prison friend then goes out and tries to secure a mortgage with it.

Wynn officially applied for the license in January of 2013 with all the pertinent information including Paul Lohnes, Steve Crosby’s friend and former business partner. Crosby said nothing. Did not recuse himself.

A month later the Commission adopted it’s own ethics rules which followed the instructions in the law to keep it above board. They agreed to recuse themselves from any proceeding “where their impartiality could reasonably be questioned.”

In July of last year the Commission’s investigators reported Lightbody’s interest to the commission. There was done at a hearing. Upon learning this Steve Crosby divulged for the first time his relationship with Lohner and recused himself from that particular meeting. he did not recuse himself form voting on the license.

A week later the state police interviewed Crosby about his knowledge and relationship with Lohner, The next day Crosby filed a written letter explaining his conflict but he did not recuse himself from the vote. This was at least nine months after Crosby first learned of Lohners interest.

He also mislead the Commission by not disclosing that for seven years Lohner was the treasurer of a company, the Crosby Vandenburgh Group, which Crosby owned and ran. Basically they worked closely together for seven years and Crosby didn’t think this was worth disclosing.

He still did not recuse himself.

In September of last year Crosby starting running the hearings to decide the Boston license. During the next month Commission investigators attempted to interview Gattineri, whose name is on the ownership papers. He claimed his Fifth Amendment rights and would not talk to them.

The investigators presented their concerns to the Commission last December. Crosby kept his blinders on and rolled ahead. Then the commission had private meetings with Wynn people (not allowed) and crafted a resolution for their “problem”.

One way they did this was to re-do the lease agreement and eliminate the landowners receipt of a piece of the gambling revenue. Cost them tens of millions. (Yeah right, tell me Wynn and these characters don’t have their side deal.)

But Crosby did not recuse himself. Instead he worked to make sure his friend’s deal wasn’t blown. The Commission also said they wanted affidavits identifying all the individuals with interest in the property. That just caused more shenanigans. This brought up another name, James Russo. He’s in for 3% of the take as a consultant or something. When the commission’s investigator’s went to talk to him he refused their attempts. And Gaetinari, the owner who took the fifth, well he wouldn’t sign the affidavit either on advice from criminal counsel.

This was all in 2013.. The came 2014 and this crap continued until May when the media reported Crosby’s association with Lohner causing Crosby to reluctantly stepped down saying, “Neither I or any of the Commissioners have any doubt about my ability to be impartial in the decision making process”. (That’s fucked up) Commissioner McHugh said he believed Crosby’s recusal was “unnecessary”. (That’s more fucked-up)

Meanwhile Gaetinari is doing all sorts of things to make it look like he’s legit. Rather then do what the law says and tell these people they’re disqualified the Commission worked along side them like they were trying to save Market Basket. Why?

Every things working out now. Lightbody gave up his interest in the land in exchange for the King Arthur’s Motel and Strip Joint around the corner from the proposed casino. Girls Girls Girls. Wherever and however you want them. Can’t have a high end casino without strippers and call girls.

You can read the last part of the mayor’s letter which outline the many procedural wink wink nod nod the Commission has been doing the past few months to bag the deal for Wynn or at least give the appearance it is bagging it for him.

So I ask you ladies and gentlemen. Is Steve Crosby mobbed up? Is Jim McHugh an unwitting bobo? Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy sort of thing?

Crosby’s business partner is business partners with these guys. So he does business with people who do business with them. Then add in all he’s done since taking the job to avoid recusal.

Meanwhile the Boston Globe is ignoring these facts in their editorials and now in their reporting. The have shown their true colors by supporting the corruption in the name of money. Frauds!!!

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/is-steve-crosby-mobbed-up-the-facts-leaves-one-asking-that/feed/22There Won’t Be a Boston Casino License. Street Kid Marty Walsh Gave The Gaming Commission, Steve Wynn, The Mob, The Globe, and Scores of Downtown Lawyers a Haymaker Today.http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/honest-street-kid-marty-walsh-took-out-the-gaming-commission-steve-wynn-the-mob-and-the-globe-today-i-now-expect-the-gaming-commission-to-not-give-out-a-boston-license/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/honest-street-kid-marty-walsh-took-out-the-gaming-commission-steve-wynn-the-mob-and-the-globe-today-i-now-expect-the-gaming-commission-to-not-give-out-a-boston-license/#commentsFri, 12 Sep 2014 03:37:21 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=72581Don’t plan on seeing a casino near Boston folks. I think Marty Walsh has them crapping in their pants right now and no casino is their only way out.

Marty Walsh sent a letter to the Gaming Commission today crying foul about the process and independence of the board then followed with an addendum detailing in a clear, chronological and easy to read format facts that make it clear the Everett site is mobbed up, the commission has done all it can to ignore this blatant fact, and the commission has the appearance of being in the tank for Wynn.

(Same as the Boston Globe in its over-the-top endorsement of Wynn’$ casino.)

The mayor also accuses former Globe lawyer, former Mass Appeals Court Justice, current acting Gaming Commissioner for Boston casino license, and five toilet Irish pompous ass James McHugh of being a moron for many reasons including his promise there would not be a tie vote for the Boston license among the four members.

There’s a Moe Sizlack “Whaaaaait” for you.

Could you imagine if John Roberts guaranteed there would never be tie votes when eight justices are sitting?

The mayor also questioned the legality of the Gaming Commission’s self-imposed regulation that required parties to adjudicate some issues with outside private arbitration. Cue Moe Sizlack again.

Due process? You don’t need no schtinkin’ due process.

Attention lawyers: Can you name any other administrative agency that hands off adjudicative decisions to private arbitration without right of appeal?

Oh, and did I mention it’s high low arbitration not find the right number arbitration. Due Process be damned.

Anyway I was wondering why Commissioner Zuniga insisted Mohegan Sun come back with another 100 million. I’m no money man and I have no idea about financing but the argument is being made that Mohegan’s deal is consistent with otger casino financing. Nothing to worry about.

Perhaps this is the cover the commission needs to come back and not give the license to either applicant?

And McHugh is afraid to say bad things about the wise guys so he’s gonna vote Everett down because he doesn’t like the look of their building.

Thanks to jaisu for pointing out the McHugh’s request is like the Emperor telling Mozart his music has too many notes. Go back and write it with less notes.

The more I think of it the more I’m convinced Walsh has them boxed in. Crosby and Lynch’s ego and lust for the limelight pushed aside whatever cerebral abilities they have making the Massachusetts Gaming Commissions akin to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office handling of the O’J. Simpson case.

Jim “Marsha Clark” McHugh.

Bahahaha. Jim McHugh, The Globe, The Mob, and many other powerful and wealthy people and organizations got their bell rung by Marty Walsh today.

Nothing better than when an intelligent and honest street kid sticks it up the duplicitous asses of the powers that be.

I wouldn’t be surprised if private calls are being made by influential people encouraging “Marsha Clark McHugh” to deny both applications. Walsh’s letter put things in perspective. Jim McHugh’s changed his underwear more than once since reading that letter today.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/honest-street-kid-marty-walsh-took-out-the-gaming-commission-steve-wynn-the-mob-and-the-globe-today-i-now-expect-the-gaming-commission-to-not-give-out-a-boston-license/feed/11Gaming Commission Tells Wynn To Build Roads in Boston. Funny, There’s No Casino Proposal in Boston – Jim McHugh Thinks He’s Frank Lloyd Wrighthttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/gaming-commission-tells-wynn-to-build-roads-in-boston-funny-theres-no-casino-proposal-in-boston-mvhughs-gone-all-frank-lloyd-wright/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/gaming-commission-tells-wynn-to-build-roads-in-boston-funny-theres-no-casino-proposal-in-boston-mvhughs-gone-all-frank-lloyd-wright/#commentsThu, 11 Sep 2014 02:06:11 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=72540Marty Walsh says he’s tried to get info from Steve Wynn so they could figure out a mitigation plan for the traffic problem his casino will cause. He says they basically told him to go pound sand.

Why? Probably because the only way Wynn’s traffic plan can work is if they acquire parcels of land or air rights inside the city’s borders. That’s bad for Wynn because it would make Boston a host city by anyone’s account and that means the good folks of Charlestown would have a vote on it.

One plan Wynn has told locals is a privately built ramp running directly from 93 right to his front door. No avoiding that being part of Boston.

So the Gaming Commission told Wynn today to come back with a traffic plan for Sullivan Square. Ut Oh! That’s like telling Roger Goodell to come back and take a lie detector test.

In other casino news Acting Chairman James McHugh doesn’t have a problem with the all the shady dealings in the Wynn deal. He doesn’t really seem to have a problem with the traffic either. I mean he has questions but that’s not his big concern.

Nope, Jim doesn’t like the design of the building. Just doesn’t float his boat. He wants a new design. Does he know what he wants? No. But it could be a deal breaker.

During the formal part of the meeting, he said Wynn is capable of a much better design. After the meeting, he used much stronger language in criticizing the building and indicated a Wynn refusal to change its design could be a deal-breaker for him. Asked if the height of the hotel tower was a concern, he said: “I have a difficulty with the entire building.” He said it had a “brooding presence.”

Is Jimmy setting up his specious reason for voting against Wynn? His tastes differ from the building designers.

Is he scared? Are the FBI in Everett rumors coupled with his strong defense of Steve Crosby’s conflicts of interest plus the fact him being a former Mass Appeals Court Judge makes him a feather in someone’s cap down at the Moakley Building causing to him to look for the easiest way out?

The lawsuits will be great reading. That’s all I know.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/gaming-commission-tells-wynn-to-build-roads-in-boston-funny-theres-no-casino-proposal-in-boston-mvhughs-gone-all-frank-lloyd-wright/feed/6Stop Buying and Wearing NFL Merchandise. Send The Message But Keep It Simplehttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/stop-buying-and-wearing-nfl-merchandise-send-the-message-but-keep-it-simple/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/stop-buying-and-wearing-nfl-merchandise-send-the-message-but-keep-it-simple/#commentsWed, 10 Sep 2014 18:33:32 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=72526It’s all about the Benjamins folks. That’s why the owners, led by Bob Kraft, support the head in the sand investigation of Ray Rice.

Hit them where it counts. No more jerseys, hats, and team logo condoms. Nada.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/stop-buying-and-wearing-nfl-merchandise-send-the-message-but-keep-it-simple/feed/22I’m Calling Out Bob Kraft for Supporting the NFL Commish on the Ray Rice Video. Kraft Is The Problem. Time For Protests At NFL Gameshttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/im-calling-out-bob-kraft-for-supporting-the-nfl-commish-on-the-ray-rice-video-kraft-is-the-problem/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/im-calling-out-bob-kraft-for-supporting-the-nfl-commish-on-the-ray-rice-video-kraft-is-the-problem/#commentsTue, 09 Sep 2014 17:03:58 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=72417Bob Kraft went on national television today and lectured us that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell did the best he could in investigating the Ray Lewis elevator incident but was unsuccessful in obtaining the tape.

That’s a blatant lie folks. The issue is not whether the Commissioner saw the tape or not, the issue is the NFL’s willingness to sabotage their own investigation in favor of the player. That’s not doing the best you can.

The Commissioner works for the owners. The story leading up to the two game suspension was a major one. Of course the owners knew there was a tape. It would be total incompetence for Goodell not to get a copy. Unless he was purposely avoiding it.

So who cares if they saw it or not.? Bob Kraft is out there making specious and insulting statements regarding the good intentions of his league.

Screw you Bob Kraft1 I am tired of you spending money to make sure we all know you spend money on charity. Now I’ll admit I’ve always had a problem with you and I’ve been accused of being anti-semetic because of it. Just like the innuendo you and Jonathan spread about Tom Finneran and anyone else who wouldn’t let the state build you a palace on the waterfront. The plan sucked but more importantly is the fact the Myra Kraft lobbied legislators to cast their vote for Richie Voke against Finneran for speaker. Ahh, that’s an in-house matter. If you try to prevent a king from taking the crown you better succeed.

Now Kraft has shown his true colors. Myra can’t be happy looking down on him. It’s one thing for the jerk to drag out the 20 something skanky looking piece of ass before the flowers on her grave are dead but now to be the voice of this ill conceived conspiracy to justify through a specious argument the obvious attempts by the NFL to cover up this vicious domestic beating and minimize the penalty.

Every NFL game this Sunday should have at least a couple of thousand people outside protesting. The owners are lying to us like we are babies. Not children but babies.

All to protect this man who showed zero remorse or concern when his soon to be wife looked dead on the floor. Seemed like he’d been through this drill before. That was the most disturbing part.

P.S. another good protest spot would be outside Kraft’s offices in downtown Boston. Corner Washington and Court Streets across from the Old State House. The building has a name but I forget it.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/im-calling-out-bob-kraft-for-supporting-the-nfl-commish-on-the-ray-rice-video-kraft-is-the-problem/feed/6Check Out the Just Released Ray Rice Elevator Knock-Out Video Which Cost Him 2 Games. The NFL Has No Moralshttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/check-out-the-just-released-ray-rice-elevator-knock-out-video-which-cost-him-2-games-the-nfl-has-no-morals/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/check-out-the-just-released-ray-rice-elevator-knock-out-video-which-cost-him-2-games-the-nfl-has-no-morals/#commentsMon, 08 Sep 2014 13:54:44 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=72346The entire Ray Rice elevator knockout video has finally been released. It’s very disturbing. What’s more than disturbing is the fact that the NFL gave Ray a 2 game suspension for this. This is the same league that suspended a guy a year for smoking dope. (okay that was stupid when the rules are quite clear.)

Hmm, I smell a rat. A big fuckin’ rat. A rat with a you-know-what so big lady rats run away. Yeah, I said that.

Okay, so the morally superior Globe told it’s readers to pay no attention to the unavoidable toxic smells emitting from the greater Route 99 area.

Why did it have to chose any of the applicants? Why did it opine this the Sunday before the commission starts making its decision? Is this it’s way of telling the commissioners they have cover from Morrissey Blvd so don’t be afraid of all the negatives with Everett?

The editorial should be headlined Pay No Attention” because that’s what the Globe pleads with its readers to do.

Pay no attention to the FBI’s interest in the Everett deal. Pay no attention to the organized crime members’ ownership interests in the land at one time or another.

Pay no attention to land switch giving a mobster Chelsea’s best strip joint a quarter of mile away from the Everett casino. (it’s closed now but if they get the license the back taxes will be paid, the place will be fixed up a little, and bam it’s re-opened. The city won’t be able to stop it. Call girl central. All shapes, sizes, and prices. Do forget people Steve Wynn says he’ll be catering to whales. Big spenders. Some of these people expect certain things to be available and where there’s a need, well….)

Pay no attention to the Gaming Commission’s order that Wynn reduce the purchase price of the land by tens of millions of dollars to eliminate wise guys from making money on the deal. (For the life of me I can’t figure that move out.)

Pay no attention to the fact the chairman of the commission did not think it was a conflict that a former business partner, who bailed out his fledgling business with over a million dollar infusion, owns a piece of the Everett land and stands to make millions if the Everett site is chosen.

Pay no attention to Globe’s brand that says, “morality, ethics, justice, honor, and incorruptibility are what matter most and is what drives us. Our readers expect no less.”

Pay no attention to the fact that the liberal Globe was one of the staunchest anti-casino crusaders until the corporate NY Times bought it and saw big ad dollars in casinos so they did a 180 and urged our legislators to vote for it causing long time editorial board member Renee Lott, after receiving a quick education in the real world, to quit the board.

Pay no attention to the fact that the Globe has brought in an advertising exec to run the whole sha-bang. Keep in mind that this exec didn’t earn his wings by coming up with “Plop plop fizz fizz”. Nope he made is bones by making sure the “plop plop fizz fizz” junk got sold for big money.

You know, advertising dollars. Like the dollars Wynn Casinos spends every year in every dip shit and not so dip shit community that has a casino. Like the kind I’m sure Mr. Kelly has been talking to Wynn people about if they get the license. The same kind he’s talking to Suffolk Downs about I’m sure. (Nothing wrong with that)

But if there is a deal I wonder what the money to he Globe is compared to the one they struck with the more spendthrift Mohegan/Suffolk.

How else can you explain it? Everything about the Everett deal stinks more than Carlo DeMaria’s after shave.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/boston-globe-tells-gaming-commission-to-give-steve-wynn-casino-license-and-it-will-give-them-cover-why-money-baby-money-imho/feed/1I’m Voting for Maura Healy for Attorney General (Yeah You Heard Me Right, Maura Healy)http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/im-voting-for-maura-healy-for-attorney-general-yeah-you-heard-me-right-maura-healy/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/im-voting-for-maura-healy-for-attorney-general-yeah-you-heard-me-right-maura-healy/#commentsSat, 06 Sep 2014 21:28:55 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=72253My only bitch with Maura Healy is she loves her boss while I can’t stand her. Yet she has shown signs of independent thinking and as the campaign went along she realized she couldn’t be all things Martha. That’s a good thing.

I want to give her the benefit of the doubt. It’s a against my better judgement but the alternative is worse.

Warren Tolman always reminded me of the over-confident kid in high school who coveted fame for any reason. His ego can’t survive among us mere mortals.

He’s like the kid who does some media driven thing to raise money for charity like walk backwards around the world or something, but it’s really not about the charity, it’s about him.

Warren Tolman is a brand he’s been creating his entire career. His problem is he is does not have a fraction of the charisma he thinks he has. I expect an Attorney General Tolman to involve himself in every issue that comes down the pike with more fluff than substance.

The guys greatest accomplishment was keeping 617 as the Watertown area code. Be careful what you wish for. Everyone thinks it’s 781 resulting in constant little annoyances for Watertown businesses.

Anyway, I’m not up for watching Warren’s come back. He won’t rest until he’s governor and his too-cool-for-school-frat-boy-limelight-searching-for attention-act is a turn off.

Note: I don’t think I can take another Healy basketball reference. Stop it now Maura. It’s getting more tiring than Tolman’s act.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/im-voting-for-maura-healy-for-attorney-general-yeah-you-heard-me-right-maura-healy/feed/4Baker Getting Ready To Go Sonny Corleone on Martha Come Tuesday Night – Casino Foes Need To Focus on MA Corruption – Would Deval be a Good President?http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/baker-getting-ready-to-go-sonny-corleone-on-martha-come-tuesday-night-casino-foes-need-to-focus-on-ma-corruption-would-deval-be-a-good-president/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/baker-getting-ready-to-go-sonny-corleone-on-martha-come-tuesday-night-casino-foes-need-to-focus-on-ma-corruption-would-deval-be-a-good-president/#commentsFri, 05 Sep 2014 02:45:20 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=72159If you think you don’t like Martha Coakley now wait until Charlie Baker unleashes on her in the next two months. It won’t be none of this mamby pamby Brennan agreement stuff.

Nope, the Republicans will be going for the jugular. I expect to see woman after woman after woman telling us that Martha sucks eggs. Big time. The cold heartless, hypocritical, and politically calculating Martha is the real Martha and when woman get to know her better I don’t think they’ll like her.

Mothers will be reminded of Martha’s torture of Violet Amerault and her children as she insisted they were guilty when every other prosecutor in the country did a 180 on the-day-care-providers-running-pedophile-sex-clubs scare 30 years ago.

Will we be told of her brother-in-law being hired as the office librarian? How about her extra-large press office which she used well during her sinful and failed prosecution of Tim Cahill for using lottery ads illegally.

We definitely will be told of her affinity for militarized police and broad arrest and prosecutorial powers minimizing basic civil rights and freedoms.

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The polls are showing that most people favor casinos. It’s more of a libertarian thing than a gambling or revenue thing if you ask me. The referendum proponents have a tough job ahead of them so may I make a marketing suggestion?

Forget about convincing people gambling is bad. We’ve heard all the arguments.

No, instead you must tell people that no matter what you think about casinos the casino licensing in MA is not on the level. We can’t trust it. And we can all agree that we do not want another corrupt Massachusetts institution.

I expect Everett to get the license. If they do the ads write thmselves. Lightbody. King Arthurs. DeMaria. And don’t forget fuzzy black and white pics of Crosby with his dice cuff links and a voice over explaining the millions his former business partner will make and Crosby’s withdrawal only after being outed a year later.

Hit the corruption hard and it should turn at least 15% of the voters from no to yes.

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Deval for President? Hmmmm, I’ve never seen the guy put himself on the line for anything or anyone. Sheeeit, why no commuting of sentences for people serving long mandatory drug sentences? You know, like Obama did for Deval’s cousin.

He is a charmer though.

I’d prefer Liz Warren. Time for someone who doesn’t care what people think.

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Charlie gives Martha a beat down for the sins she’s committed. (BTW great ONION headline “If Sonny Corleone had an E-Z Pass he’d be alive today”

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/09/baker-getting-ready-to-go-sonny-corleone-on-martha-come-tuesday-night-casino-foes-need-to-focus-on-ma-corruption-would-deval-be-a-good-president/feed/23Attention Boston Area Back To School Co-Eds: You Don’t Need Your College’s Procedures For Reporting Sexual Abuse. You Need My Procedures.http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/attention-boston-area-co-eds-you-dont-need-your-colleges-procedures-for-reporting-sexual-abuse-you-my-procedures/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/attention-boston-area-co-eds-you-dont-need-your-colleges-procedures-for-reporting-sexual-abuse-you-my-procedures/#commentsSun, 31 Aug 2014 22:57:27 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71984Tell a close friend or two as soon as possible (fresh complaint) and call the police. ASAP! Then shut up your mouth. Capiche?

Tell the school nothing. None of their goddamn business. Remember ladies, when you get right down to to it you are nothing more than their customer.

If you got molested in Wal Mart would you report it to the customer service counter and leave it at that? I think not.

As for the schools, they should not have any sexual harassment policy other than reminding students of the criminal code. It covers everything from stalking to groping to harassing to peeping to up-skirt pics to molestation to rape to mopery (exposing one’s self to a blind person). Okay, I made the mopery thing up.

Anyway ladies, the colleges don’t want or need this problem and the memo telling the college boys that gurls are people too went out well over twenty years ago. They’re more than on notice.

So if God forbid you or a friend find yourself in this terrible situation call the police, tell a friend or two, and then talk to no one else.

It’s a police matter.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/attention-boston-area-co-eds-you-dont-need-your-colleges-procedures-for-reporting-sexual-abuse-you-my-procedures/feed/38Is Kevin Cullen In The Tank Again? – Do The Numbers Give Grossman a Chance? – Has Greg Sullivan Lost Touch? – Does Warren Tolman Need My Advice?http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/is-kevin-cullen-is-in-the-tank-again-or-just-dumb-do-the-numbers-give-grossman-a-chance-has-greg-sullivan-lost-touch-does-warren-tolman-need-my-advice/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/is-kevin-cullen-is-in-the-tank-again-or-just-dumb-do-the-numbers-give-grossman-a-chance-has-greg-sullivan-lost-touch-does-warren-tolman-need-my-advice/#commentsSun, 31 Aug 2014 16:44:13 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71950Check out this crap from the street-wise-well-connected-working-class-yet-deep-and-worldly-Kevin-Cullen today as he compares Artie T. to a Dickens’ character.

he prided himself on not maximizing profits at the expense of his employees, or his own soul.

If Kevin was being honest he would have noted the difference between Artie T. Demoulas and Dickens’ Fezzwig.

Fezzwig: ‘(H)e prided himself on not maximizing profits at the expense of his employees, or his own soul. ‘

Artie T.” ’(H)e prided himself on maximizing profits at the expense of his business partners and not his employees, family, friends, and, if God is dead, his own soul.”

Here’s a guy (Cullen) who’s developed a persona of someone understanding the intricacies of a civil uprising in a foreign land (Northern Ireland) and can play the high stakes poker of outing FBI informants and living inside the South Boston street world of Whitey Bulger and Pat Nee and Kevin Weeks and John Martorano and Brian Halloran and Steve Flemmi and Fred Wyshak and Fred Wyshak and Fred Wyshak and Fred Wyshak but can’t understand the concept of screwing business partners.

That’s weird. Don’t you think? I mean I can see Joe Fitzgerald and Margery Eagan falling for this but Kevin Cullen? The street smart Kevin Cullen? He’s five steps ahead of the rest of us on all the grifts, isn’t he? I mean that’s what he and the Globe wants us to believe. Right?

Just another day in the fantasy literature routinely dribbling out of Morrissey Blvd.

Their morning meetings end with the McGrory saying something like, “Remember boys and girls, it’s all about sticking to the script.”

Jeff Jacoby, buddy of Alan Dershowitz, stuck to the script when he promoted the banishment of Bill Bulger.

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The ten day weather forecast says there is a 60% chance of rain for greater Boston on Primary Day.

The Globe’s endorsement of Grossman gave his camp a much needed moral boost going in to the week when voters start to pay attention. This helps much with motivating the people who have to get their organizations get out the vote for Grossman. If there is a new feeling within the campaign that he can upset Martha it will feed upon itself and make it happen.

For reasons unknown the GOP is on the airwaves kicking the crap out of Martha. I think it’s great. Why wouldn’t they wait a week the dumb shits? They want to run against Martha I assume and the numbers give her a high probability of beating Grossman. Did they jumped the gun? Or would they rather run against Grossman? Why? I don;t know.

Note to the Berwick voters: Unless Steve Grossman wins the primary Charlie Baker is the next governor. He will roll all over the legislature with Rosenberg and Dempsey running the place. Nothing personal towards them. The only realistic way for Berwick people to have a seat at the table is to elect Steve Grossman. The stars are aligning for a possible Grossman upset. Don’t be the spoiler.

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The former MA Inspector General and a state rep. Gregory Sullivan is collecting a nice state pension well having a -died-and-went-to-heaven-gig at the Pioneer Institute where he plays the most ethical finger pointer in the state.

His latest Mother Theresa outrage is the city of Boston hiring a guy from the bus company to run the day to day operations of getting the kids on and off the buses at the right times and right places.

Now I understand there are situations where there is a conflict when a person leaves a private firm to take a govt. job and having to deal with its prior employer. But the other way around is what the usual suspects do. Leave a govt. job for a cushy job at the place they were regulating.

But here we have a job in a very small and specific industry requiring a working knowledge of city’s geography and neighborhoods, and is very hands on.

But Greg Sullivan being Greg Sullivan tells the Herald he would rather have a logistical cluster fuck than a specious conflict that it at best an intellectual exercise in utopia, not democratic, defining.

“It creates a problem and a challenge for the mayor, because Marty Walsh doesn’t want to begin his administration with any conflict of interest within his top-ranking officials,” said Gregory W. Sullivan, a former inspector general and research director at Pioneer Institute.

Top ranking official? Ahh, I don’t think so. An important job? Yes. A job that should pay well? Yes. A hard job? Yes. A job requiring specific skill sets? Yes. A job under a microscope? Yes.

I mean this a job I definitely would not want. Everyday just praying that the Star Wars bar crowd we call bus drivers didn’t forget a kid, run over a kid, or worse diddle a kid.

The there’s the parents. The low and middle income parents aren’t so much the problem. You can talk to them. Unless of course they’re nuts. And nuts are everywhere.

No, it’s these college and post grad educated former professional pony tailed mothers who grew up in a suburb far fiom here and think the Boston School Department should run no differently than Buckingham Brown and Nichols.

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Note to Warren Tolman: Without commenting on the content of your TV ads may I suggest you take you out of them as much as possible.

Rather than you talking to the camera I suggest a professional voice over and less video of you.

Ahhh, I’m trying to be nice here dude.

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Unless you want Kevin Cullen to come your house and see you come home after being away to find your teenage kid and his friends having a “Rave for ALS” with 1,500 kids in your backyard, on your roof, and in you house, so you pull the plug and end it only to have Kevin Cullen and the Globe write that you don’t want to see ALS cured you will follow me on twitter.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/is-kevin-cullen-is-in-the-tank-again-or-just-dumb-do-the-numbers-give-grossman-a-chance-has-greg-sullivan-lost-touch-does-warren-tolman-need-my-advice/feed/45Artie T. Finally Gave In. But You Know He Doesn’t Like Ithttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/arte-t-finally-gave-in-but-you-know-he-doesnt-like-it/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/arte-t-finally-gave-in-but-you-know-he-doesnt-like-it/#commentsThu, 28 Aug 2014 04:03:58 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71879From the Globe:

The agreement authorizes Arthur T. to manage the business and stabilize operations at its 71 stores, where employee walkouts and customer boycotts had brought business to a virtual standstill for eight weeks. However, until the deal closes, he will continue to work with the chief executives hired to replace him, Felicia Thornton and James Gooch.

Artie T. now has to figure out how to screw his cousins before the deal closes or hits a snag while having a couple of pairs of eyes watching his every move.

It’s the difference between a teenager having his parents go away for weekend or not.

Wait. Bad analogy. More like a bank employee planning an inside heist on a day the boss is away only to learn the night before he’s changed plans. Can’t rob the place with the boss there.

That is what Artie has been fighting so hard for the past two weeks and he didn’t get it.

Once they come back to work they’re not going out again so Artie T. better be able to close this deal.

It ain’t over til the fat lady in aisle 14 sings.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/arte-t-finally-gave-in-but-you-know-he-doesnt-like-it/feed/50Wynn and Gaming Commission’s End Run on Boston’s Host City Status, With Help From Deval and MBTA Perhaps?http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/wynn-and-gaming-commissions-end-run-on-bostons-host-city-status-with-help-from-deval-and-mbta-perhaps/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/wynn-and-gaming-commissions-end-run-on-bostons-host-city-status-with-help-from-deval-and-mbta-perhaps/#commentsThu, 28 Aug 2014 03:43:44 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71871This from Commonwealth Mag

State transportation officials, in a letter to Wynn, also indicated they were receptive to selling two small parcels of land owned by the MBTA to the casino operator for use as the entrance to the Everett site. “While no agreement on these parcels has been finalized, should the proponent ultimately receive a casino license from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, the MBTA will negotiate the possible sale of this property consistent with all relevant requirements related to the disposition of public property,” state transportation officials said in the letter.

What this says is if Wynn gets the license the MBTA/DOT may sell him pieces of the old Everett Station he needs for an entrance to his casino.

Hmmm, If I’m not mistaken that piece of land will cut into or connect to Boston property near where the Boston Water and Sewer Commission has that big windmill. Hmmmm

So if Wynn gets the license he’ll need that property to make his place work. Nice enough of the MBTA/DOT to say they’d negotiate. Not sell, just talk about it.

Maybe because that would expose Boston as a host city as the surveyors got the tripos out to mark the land for the right to purchase contracts.

It’s all making sense now. If the mayor agrees to surrounding city status he’s waived his right to be a host a city which is what he’s always maintained. The Commission has pulled all the strings over his objections thus putting the city exactly where Wynn wants it. As a non-entity.

Perhaps too cute by half.

The mayor has said all along that he’s asked specific questions of Wynn without responses.

Once Wynn receives the license and then makes the required access using a sliver of Boston property it’s too late to do anything. At least that’s what Wynn is hoping. Save himself hundreds of millions and more importantly a required approval from Charlestown voters. Good luck winning that vote Steve.

And since the Gaming Commissioners misread the law causing them to have as many appearances of conflict and bias as possible they’re not pushing Wynn to get a contingency deal done with the MBTA before the license is issued. Why? They do for all other required land deals to make the proposal work?

Sam: Big Al. It’s been a long time. Boy you look good. What’s your secret? How do you do it?

Big Al: Ahh, Sam, you’re still the Irish bullshit artist aye?

They both smile and exchange handshakes.

Big Al: Listen Sam, you had a kid working here by the name of Artie T. right?

Sam: Yeah, I had to let him go. He was my manager and it turned out he robbed me blind and made a kings ransom for himself and his friends.

You know what this a-hole was doing? He went in on another barroom with some buddies and was using my stock to fill his ice chests. Turns out he had more scams going than the Massachusetts Gaming Commission.

Anyway, what about him?

Big Al: Well, if you thought he was a scumbag then you had to clip him. But since you clipped him you better have been sure he’s a scumbag because the people who like him, well they’re good people.

You know what I mean?

Sam: Yeah, think so.

Big Al: And these people, well they don’t take things lying down when one of their friends tells them he’s been wronged. And Artie T. is telling my friends he’s been wronged….

….by you.

Now I of course said this can’t be true. Sam is not like that. He’s one of the good ones. Right Sam?

Sam: Right:

Big Al: So I thought you’d like to know that Artie T.’s friends are planning a customer and employee boycott of your bar.

Sam: That’s funny Big Al. Most of my customers have no idea who Artie T. is. My employees may have liked him but they have families to take care of and it’s ridiculous to think they won’t show up for work.

Joe: I’m talking about this? The warehouse says this is all they’re sending you now. Four cases of Haffenreffer Lite, a keg of Old Milwaukee and a six pack of Lowenbrau Dark.

Sam: Jesus Christ, this is a mistake;

Joe: Sorry Sam. I checked this out with shipping before I left and they said this is what you will be getting for now on instead on the usual. I think they said something about Artie T.

Hey where is the Artmeister? He’s a fuckin great guy. He’s hooked me up more times here. Shit. My bachelor party we had to drink over $1,500 worth of booze and the bill was less two hundred. We made sure we took care of him. Anyway where is he?

Sam: I fired him.

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Two weeks later Big Al comes back into the bar. It’s empty.

Big Al: Sam, what happened? Where are all the customers? This boycott is working I guess. People really like Artie T. and it seems he was the only thing that held this place together.

Sam: I know Big Al. I know. It’s not that the distributors won’t send me more than a few cases of shitty beer and a couple of bottles of V.O.

And it’s not that the bar is without TV because the satellite company won’t come out and fix the dish after it got vandalized a couple of weeks ago.

And obviously my bar isn’t empty because the toilets mysteriously overflowed and every plumber in the state says they’re booked for the next month.

No, I see what you mean Big Al. We all have flaws but Artie T. is a great human being. No. I take that back. Artie T. is the greatest human being. Can you help me get him back?

And scene

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/the-eb3-players-present-big-al-visits-the-corner-bar-or-artie-t-earned-the-boycott/feed/0Market Basket Deal Being Held Up Because Artie T. Demands Arthur S. Trust Him. Good Luck With Thathttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/market-basket-deal-being-held-up-because-artie-t-demands-arthur-s-trust-him-good-luck-with-that/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/market-basket-deal-being-held-up-because-artie-t-demands-arthur-s-trust-him-good-luck-with-that/#commentsTue, 26 Aug 2014 22:34:11 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71835It appears they’ve agreed on the price and the buyer has arranged financing. Just like buying house. Now all we do is wait for the closing. Time for the inspections and the microscopic review of the mortgage application.

And as we all know the buyer doesn’t move in until the deed is signed and the check is cleared. Doesn’t even have a key. It doesn’t belong to him and deals falls through all the time.

But Artie T. is special. Ask him. Ask all the warehouse workers and truck drivers who “unanimously” agree that not bringing home paychecks is worth the sacrifice and martyrdom for Saint Artie T.

Then ask the store managers and workers who show up for work and collect pay checks but have nothing to do because their buddies on the the logistics side of the business shut the place down.

Artie T. wants control before the deal is complete. He wants to get in there and do what it is he does and then….

Who knows? But the most honest person in the world doesn’t receive those terms because the opportunity to screw the buyers is huge. And the last thing Artie T. wants to do is hand money over to Arthur S.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/market-basket-deal-being-held-up-because-artie-t-demands-arthur-s-trust-him-good-luck-with-that/feed/6CORRECTION: I Messed Up The Facts on The Martha Coakley/John Brennan Lobbyist Skirmishhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/correction-i-messed-up-the-facts-on-the-martha-coakleyjohn-brennan-lobbyist-skirmish/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/correction-i-messed-up-the-facts-on-the-martha-coakleyjohn-brennan-lobbyist-skirmish/#commentsTue, 26 Aug 2014 01:35:21 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71780Apologies to everyone. You expect and deserve more from this address (channeling Joe Fitzgerald sports writing days)

I am sorry but in a previous post I wrongly reported that the lobbying contingency fee prohibition does not apply to the executive branch. It does.

I’m so embarrassed.

What Brennan did was get a contingency fee based on money he secured for Franciscan Hospital (his client) from a non-profit that distributes money to hospitals and is funded in part by the state.

Key word is it is a non-profit not the executive branch or the legislature.

Chapter 3: Section 42. Agreements to influence decisions of executive branch employees or legislation for consideration prohibited Section 42. No person shall make any agreement whereby any compensation or thing of value is to be paid to any person contingent upon a decision as described in the definition of “executive lobbying”, or the passage or defeat of any legislation or the approval or veto of any legislation by the governor. No person shall agree to engage in legislative lobbying for consideration to be paid upon the contingency of the outcome of the actions described in the definition of “legislative lobbying” or that any legislation is passed or defeated.

“Executive lobbying,” any act to promote, oppose, influence, or attempt to influence the decision of any officer or employee of the executive branch or an authority, including but not limited to, statewide constitutional officers and employees thereof

The law is explicit and Brennan did not violate it. He did lobby the legislature on behalf of Franciscan Hospital to fund the non-profit and was paid an hourly rate.

He then had a deal with Francescan that he would present their case to the non-profit and try to secure some of the funding.

Now you can cry crocodile tears all day and all night but there is no violation of the statute as it is written.

But Franciscan had buyer’s remorse and wanted the hundred grand back it paid Brennan for the money he got them from the non-profit. So the bastards called Martha Coakley and said they were victims and blah blah blah and Martha jumped at it.

Clearly no law was broken but who needs the headache of everyday having the Globe, the Herald, and the usual suspects accuse you of being corrupt? Not good for the wallet, the business, the family, and the health.

So Brennan gave the hundred grand contingency fee back to the ungrateful Franciscan Hospital to get Martha off his back. It wasn’t a fine. And he admitted to nothing because he did nothing.

Sorry for the misinformation folks.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/correction-i-messed-up-the-facts-on-the-martha-coakleyjohn-brennan-lobbyist-skirmish/feed/2Devil In the Details of Artie T.s’ Offer – F.B.I. In Everett Asking Casino Related Questionshttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/devil-in-the-details-of-artie-t-s-offer-f-b-i-in-everett-asking-casino-related-questions/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/devil-in-the-details-of-artie-t-s-offer-f-b-i-in-everett-asking-casino-related-questions/#commentsMon, 25 Aug 2014 03:09:35 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71751So they cancelled big Market Basket board meeting tonight that was suppose to finalize Artie T.’s self-endorsed offer which includes a new $500 million dollar loan from something that sounds like a venture capital fund, first time mortgages on the real estate holdings, and dipping into to personal bank accounts and collateral of his and his sisters.

The parties were still at odds over several terms of Arthur T. Demoulas’s $1.5 billion offer to buy the 50.5 percent of the company owned by his cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas, and other family members, according to people familiar with the talks.

Question: If Artie really was borrowing half a billion from a private equity fund and getting banks, his sisters, and he to write checks totaling another billion, all of which will be handed over to Arthur S.’s'side, what details could there be?

Wait a minute. You don’t suppose the honorable Artie T. is up to his old tricks again, do you? Nah, Artie’s not like that anymore. He’s on the level and there’s no reason for Arthur S. to be so thorough.

Hasn’t the board heard the convincing rhetoric of the many middle-aged shaved head employees talking to the press like they’re Caesar Chavez sticking up for farm workers?

Look at these guys. Talk about charisma.

Watch as Artie T. now starts yelling that the Arthur S. side are obstructionists who have no legitimate reasons to question the details of his “last best offer”.

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The F.B.I. is poking around Everett asking pointed questions about the casino and what’s in it for everyone. Another reason perhaps The Gaming Commission wants to act ASAP in issuing the Boston license. Better to have the license in Wynn’s hands if and when indictments come.

I know, you’re probably expecting me to say something about today’s front page story in the Globe on Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria thinking he’s Foghorn Leghorn and Everett City Hall and Honey Dew Donuts are his personal chicken coops.

Too easy.

Hey, I’ve been warning you guys about Everett for years. For years.

It has the only bi-cameral local government in the entire country. There is a common council and a board of alderman. Add in the school committee and you have close to 40 elected officials many of whom are running around thinking they’re in the Court of King James while belonging in the court of felony crimes.

If I were in Ferguson, I would immediately take over the investigation of the shooting to ensure independence and transparency in the review.

Well Maura, as you know, in Massachusetts the district attorney has immediate jurisdiction of all sudden deaths, including killings by cops. Not the local police chiefs.

The A.G. can take over a caee but I can’t recall when that was done except for reasons of conflicts. The Boston Strangler case was taken over by an incompetent Ed Brooke who liked the notoriety and used the multi-county venues of the murders as his reason.

So if we had a Fergusron here and Maura was A.G. the first thing she would do is announce the district attorney is incompetent and only she is capable of understanding the nuances. Okay she won’t point fingers of incompetency but that is what will be inferred causing all sorts of ruffled feathers. Then see how successful the investigation is.

The aggressive ethical persona Maura portrays is dangerous for a prosecutor with political naivete.

One more thing Maura. How many times do you have to remind people you played basketball in college and then professionally in Europe. How many basketball references? How many videos of you shooting baskets?

In the spring of 1983, 28-year-old Arthur T. Demoulas approached his fellow directors on the board of Demoulas Super Markets and said the family grocery business — now known as Market Basket — should launch a pharmacy division. The board turned him down.

But 14 years later, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld a lower court’s ruling that the young heir had invited the rejection by providing “misleading, inaccurate, and materially incomplete” information to the board. That rejection, the high court agreed, allowed him to open his own pharmacy chain, Lee Drug, sell its nine stores to Walgreens in 1990, and keep his cousins, the children of his late Uncle George, from sharing in the business opportunity.

Remember folks. It’s not what you or I or the employees or the media think. It only matters what Artie T.’s financial backers think.

How are they sure they are getting the right numbers from Artie T.? The finance and accounting people aren’t showing up so who is running the numbers?

The MB board and the people thinking of backing Artie T. know they are dealing with a thief who can’t be trusted and only does deals where he can pull fast ones.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/another-slimy-move-artie-t-demoulas-got-caught-doing-how-many-slimy-moves-dont-we-know-about/feed/13Shit-Head Steve Grossman Makes Honorable Lobbyist John Brennan the Issue and A-Holes Greg Sullivan and Bill Galvin Jump on Boardhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/shit-head-steve-grossman-makes-honorable-lobbyist-john-brennan-the-issue-and-a-holes-greg-sullivan-and-bill-galvin-jump-on-board/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/shit-head-steve-grossman-makes-honorable-lobbyist-john-brennan-the-issue-and-a-holes-greg-sullivan-and-bill-galvin-jump-on-board/#commentsThu, 21 Aug 2014 17:37:38 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71686Everyone who does any kind of lobbying on Beacon Hill knows that lobbying fees for work done to influence legislation cannot be based on success. That is a contingency fee. No bonus or anything for successes throughout the process.

Nobody knows this better than former rep and senator and current lobbyist John Brennan. This man has been around the building so long he remembers Charles Bulfinch walking into his office leading tours of the place.

The Franciscan Hospital hired Brennan’s firm to help secure state funds dispersed by the executive branch. The law is at best ambiguous on this but Martha Coakley smelled an opportunity and went digging. Do you know what a it costs an honest business in legal fees when the Attorney General comes knocking at its door?

Martha being Martha said she was going to force the issue so Brennan’s shop agreed to civil penalties which were less than the fee. That’s because there is a thing called quantum meruit which means no matter what, you are entitled to get paid for work performed.

So the always-willing-to-get-his-name-in-the-paper-by-pointing-the-morality-finger-at-others-former-inspector-general-Greg-Sullivan said this in today’s Globe:

“If someone robs a bank, you don’t say they can keep two-thirds of the money and walk,” he said.

This is drawing attention because the clueless Steve Grossman thought this was the case to knock Martha on.

And then yesterday the “Dark Prick” Bill Galvin also said Martha should have gone after Brennan criminally.

‘There’s an election going on. Nobody’s name is too good to wrongfully besmirch.’

Screw them all!

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/shit-head-steve-grossman-makes-honorable-lobbyist-john-brennan-the-issue-and-a-holes-greg-sullivan-and-bill-galvin-jump-on-board/feed/30Artie T.’s Problem In Getting Finance is Artie T. , His Wall Street Credit Rating is Zerohttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/artie-t-s-problem-in-getting-finance-is-artie-t/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/artie-t-s-problem-in-getting-finance-is-artie-t/#commentsWed, 20 Aug 2014 16:20:26 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71635Arthur T. Demoulas has a recorded history of loaning money to people who use land he covets for collateral then telling the about to be duped landowner one thing while doing another ultimately leading to foreclosure with penalties and fees and putting the land in Artie T.’s portfolio at a cheap price.

He also is on record as having lent money and promises of Market Basket business to a small business in return for a considerable piece of equity but then didn’t provide the Market Basket business as promised thus forcing the original partners to starve and sell their shares to Artie T. at a discount.

Then we have the SJC describing Artie’s attempts to pay someone over 2 million dollars ($2,000,000 – via loan forgiveness) to commit perjury by falsely testifying that Arthur S. paid him to install listening devices in Artie T.’s office. Gut that? (That’s criminal by the way and if you or I did it…)

And let’s not forget a couple of other SJC opinions outlining Artie’s Geppetto using his millions to pull the strings of a few of the greedy Pinnochios out there in his elaborate and expensive blackmailing attempt of a struggling young attorney.(That’s criminal by the way and if you or I did it…)

How many sinister things has he done that he’s gotten away with? Or didn’t get away with it? Think about it. He lives his life by taking advantage of people’s greed.

We see store managers allowing the plastering of those nightmarish Stalinesque posters of Artie T. in store windows and giving statements to the press knocking current management.

Now we see vendors telling the media they can’t do business with current management because they were overpaid and Artie T. was easy to deal with. Hmmm

We also know he hired top notch public relations/issues management/spinmeisters/mouth piece/lead-and-feed-the-lazy-incestuous-local-media firm Rasky Baerlein over a year ago to help create this cult of personality.

Workers, customers, politicians, vendors and others are being served up daily to the slacker “journalists”. This takes an organization. It costs money. Far from organic. Needs lots of pesticide so Artie T. is making it and Rasky has the local scribes spreading it. Like the tools they are.

Employees giving interviews threatening their bosses. Vendors going out of their way to publicly indict a customer for incompetence because they double paid a bill.

And 99.99% of local press and pundits all in with Artie T. BIZARRE!!!

Artie T.’s problem right now is financing. He knows all the dirty tricks nefarious creditors and debtors can pull but so doesn’t the other side because they’ve been forced to deal with him for years. He’s probably demanding terms with obscure but gaping holes while scoffing at legitimate business terms a person with his record should expect.

BTW, this whole thing about Market Basket never recovering is the biggest bull shit to come along since the last time larry Lucchino opened his mouth.

It will thrive when it comes back.

P.S. I forgot about Artie T. and his father stealing his cousins’ half ownership in the company. Really, would you do business with this nut?

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Unless you want Artie T. to come to your house and tell you he just bought your mortgage from the bank and is foreclosing because under his interpretation of the terms the grass is too high but if you want to fight it you will have to hire very expensive lawyers to match his very expensive lawyers you will follow me on twitter. Gut that?

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/artie-t-s-problem-in-getting-finance-is-artie-t/feed/16District Attorney Dan “Search and Avoid” Conleyhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/d-a-dan-search-and-avoid-conley-is-to-blame/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/d-a-dan-search-and-avoid-conley-is-to-blame/#commentsWed, 20 Aug 2014 03:12:28 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71613So the Herald ran a series recently focusing on the low clearance rate of homicides by Boston Police. In Massachusetts the district attorney has complete authority over homicide investigations. The BPD blames Conley for the lack of prosecutions while Dan responds that he needs to be absolutely sure the charged party did it rather than being pretty sure. Or something like that.

This explains why a guy who shot and killed a woman sitting in the back of car driving away was not indicted.

Or the driver of a speeding car who ran a red light as he barreled through Broadway in South Boston killing a young woman who was unfortunate enough to have the green light.

And how could Dan indict the two guys on film holding a guy a down as they punch and kick him simultaneously as the guy decides to stop his heart from beating and die? You never can be sure.Talk about bad timing.

Then there’s the guy who had to use a stun gun multiple times against an already injured young man with his hands raised.

The above are four incidents off the top of my head showing clear cases of homicide, assault, and/or criminal negligence by Boston police officers in the line of duty.

Dan chose not to bring any charges.

Before Dan there was Ralph Martin and before him was Newman Flanagan and before him we had Garret Byrne. Byrne started in the 50s. Sixty freakin years ago .

Before I get to them let me ask you a question. Suppose you were getting a tour of a medium size high school. During the tour you ask about the discipline procedures and you’re told the school never has discipline problems. What would you think?

Conley’s predecessors regularly prosecuted cops for things that popped up in the course of business. They didn’t go looking for stuff but they didn’t run away either. What about a dirty cop or two shaking done street level drug dealers and such?

Jesus Christ they had a detective on camera stealing an expensive pair of sunglasses out of a store on Newbury St. while investigating a robbery.

WTF? How about a shoplifting charge with a dismissal upon the payment of court costs. And a stay away order. Wouldn’t hurt his pension.

Oh, and Conley has a new trick. His office is now routinely filing frivolous complaints with the Board of Bar Overseers against defense attorneys who do good jobs.

…… I was about to push publish when I remembered Conley’s mayoral campaign gimmick of solving the Boston Stranger mystery through classic Conleyesqe creepiness.

He had detectives follow one of the Strangler’s family members around for a week (at cost to the tax payers and time away from other unsolved homicides.) until he blew his nose and threw the tissue away. Dan saw this on CSI Schenectady.

But Dan ignored the fact that it’s been widely known for years that the DeSalvo family has been willing to give DNA samples.

And this stunt only addressed one of the murders.

Not for nothin’ but I told you dan would get his ass kicked in the mayor’s fight and he did.

Ta Da!

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/d-a-dan-search-and-avoid-conley-is-to-blame/feed/1Two Great Examples of Why Arthur T. Demoulas is Going To Orthodox Hell!!http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/two-great-examples-of-why-arthur-t-demoulas-is-going-to-orthodox-hell/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/two-great-examples-of-why-arthur-t-demoulas-is-going-to-orthodox-hell/#commentsTue, 19 Aug 2014 02:47:12 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71572What happened when Arthur T. Demoulas told a guy who owed him millions he’d forgive the debt if he would perjure himself in court and lie about Arthur S. Demoulas?

Well the guy had integrity and said no. Artie T. and his dad couldn’t believe it. They only wanted the guy to lie and say Arthur S. paid him to plant listening devices inside Artie T.’s office. Alleging this would have helped in their unsuccessful fight to keep ripping off Arthur S. et al.

Of course this resulted in another Demoulas lawsuit that went to the SJC. This time it ordered Artie T.’s side to pay punitive damages which is the legal way of saying they were complete dicks.

The judge found that Demoulas; his son, Arthur T. Demoulas; and Kettenbach encouraged such testimony in reckless disregard of the truth.

Then there’s the time Artie T. was doing some self-dealing and violating his fiduciary duties by investing in a water bottling company for a close friend and the close friend’s close friend. Artie T. made all sorts of promises of what Market Basket would do.Then he didn’t come through but was able to swindle the quarter interest of the close friend of the close friend through deceit.

And right now Hannaford’s parent company is negotiating a deal to buy Arthur S.’s’ family’s shares and let Artie T. run the place.

Unfortunately they are a real business and want real business guarantees including oversight of the top executives. Why would anyone want to invest two billion dollars with Artie T.’s’ word as collateral?

Anyone who believes Artie T. is a good guy is kidding themselves.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/two-great-examples-of-why-arthur-t-demoulas-is-going-to-orthodox-hell/feed/11How Hard Will It Be For The Market Basket Board of Directors to Prove Breaches of Duty Against Arthur T. Demoulas and Demand He Pay for It?http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/how-hard-will-it-be-for-the-market-basket-board-of-directors-to-prove-breaches-of-duty-against-arthur-t-demoulas-and-demand-he-pay-for-it/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/how-hard-will-it-be-for-the-market-basket-board-of-directors-to-prove-breaches-of-duty-against-arthur-t-demoulas-and-demand-he-pay-for-it/#commentsSun, 17 Aug 2014 23:11:32 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71534If the Market Basket Board of Directors can show Arthur T. Demoulas had a role in encouraging employees to walk off the job or interfere with the business it could seek damages for the lost profits plus penalties for being such a dick.

As a stockholder in a close corporation he has a fiduciary duty to the board of directors and the other stockholders. This prevents him from screwing with the company.

Think about the lawsuit. Employees being deposed under oath. Larry Rasky and most of his office raising their hands and saying “I do” but not before their Market Basket files are handed over. Then there’s the follow-the- money road.

So what I’m saying is that Artie T. can’t play a part in the warehouse workers and truck drivers boycotting work thus causing empty shelves while encouraging store workers to continue reporting for work causing this staged tsunami promoting the intellectual fallacy that the board created this disaster and Artie T. is the only salvation.

He’s not getting the place no siree. Long after this shakes out and the customers have returnedArtie and maybe other stockholders will get hit with a huge judgement ordering them to pay tens if not hundreds of millions. He’ll have to sell his stock stock.

Unless Artie can raise the dough and accept the conditions prudent investors will attach he’s a gonnah! To raise the dough he has to find big money people willing to do business with him. His record with business partners suggests this might be tough.

Rogers served with Mayor Walsh and ran a couple of hard fought battles for the speakership with Walsh acting as one of his main lieutenants. Walsh went balls to the walls only to be on the losing side each time. Not good when you’re a rep.

Here’s what Harbor Towers didn’t consider. During Rogers’ battle with DeLeo for the big job and well after people like Walsh had committed everything to him it came out that Johnny Boy’s a major league unethical son-of-a-bitch.

Rogers had a huge war chest. He was in leadership for years (now he’s a back bencher) and raised a ton of dough. You know what he did with the money? Lemme tell ya.

He hired his no- experienced buddy as a $250,000.00 political consultant. You read that right. Two Hundred and Fifty ThousandDollars.Then Rogers buddy took the money and bought a house on the cape and put Rogers’ name on the deed as a co-owner.

People were not happy when they heard about this but lines had already been drawn.

Now Rogers is a sitting rep. whoring his relationship with Walsh to influence this closely watched development. (different for former rep to do this. But a sitting rep?)

Not only should Walsh be insulted by Roger’s involvement, which alone should cause it to backfire, I doubt he trusts or respects him.

Rogers cape house move to me is as bad as anything I’ve seen up there except for taking money. This Harbor Towers move shows his lack of shame. Nothing more transparent than a guy with a tin ear and larceny in his heart.

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I just heard Charlie Baker say he quit his day job so he can spend the next 90 day campaigning full time for Governor.

There’s a Moe Sizlack ”Whaaaat?” for you. How would you like to be raising money and working hard for this guy and on August 17th you find out he hasn’t been working full time on this?

Does Charlie have it in his belly? He may be the smartest person in the room but campaigning is done outside, not inside.

Now he just said he wants “to give back”. Oh bruthah!

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Obviously the Rick Perry indictment is outrageous but it’s a good example of how far over-zealous prosecutors can go in applying facts to the law in some political corruption cases. Someone benefits and someone loses when most decisions are made by legislators, governors, and appointed officials.

The O’Brien indictments and the slandering of Bob DeLeo and some reps who voted for him for speaker are other examples.

I don’t know about a Texas jury but here in Massachusetts Fred Wyshak could get a jury to convict some of our elected officials on similar facts.

And the Globe would be leading the charge from the get go.

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How bummed is Larry Lucchino because he couldn’t make Tom Werner Baseball Commissioner? Talk about a win win situation. First off he wouldn’t have to deal with Werner’s whiney uselessness on Yawkey Way. Best of all he’d have a commissioner he could control.

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Hey Steve Grossman, if I were you I would…….ahh what’s the use?

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]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/71519/feed/37The Mayor v. Beacon Hill Over Wheelchair Ramps. Where Have I Seen This Movie Before?http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/the-mayor-v-beacon-hill-over-wheelchair-ramps-where-have-i-seen-this-movie-before/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/the-mayor-v-beacon-hill-over-wheelchair-ramps-where-have-i-seen-this-movie-before/#commentsThu, 14 Aug 2014 03:03:43 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71471Something way too familiar about this Beacon Hill Civc whatever the hell they are fight to screw the handicapped.

Where have I seen this before? Something very familiar here. A relatively young mayor with a full head of hair and a very old institution run by very old rich white snobs trying to very hard to prevent the new young mayor from putting in sidewalk wheelchair ramps.

Hmm, what’s missing? Eureka! I have it.

This is an off the shelf script for an 80s teenage movie or a romantic comedy from anytime. Jesus it’s so obvious.

instead of big bad developers wanting to tear down the teen center and build a mall causing the kids to have nowhere to hang, chill, kickback, be themselves, and not do drugs we have Beacon Hill residents v. the handicapped.

That’s not cool you guys. So someone needs to beat Tyler or Chase or another one of the developer’s preppy spoiled sons in a skiing, boating, tightrope walking, or hair combing race and the teen center will be saved.

But wait, we need a love interest. Yes, a Heaven Can Wait meets Better Off Dead.

It writes itself.Marty Walsh getting out of his car and a small group of handicapped people are protersting about the sidewalk ramps. The mayor is clueless about the issue and late for an important meeting. He politely moves passed when suddenly the most beautiful woman in the world gets in front of him. Their eye’s meet.

She has nothing but contempt in her eyes yet upon seeing her his eyes lighten up. She’s in wheelchair holding a sign. It doesn’t matter to him.

And she’s with her best friend who is in a wheelchair. The Joan Cusack character.

Now you see where am I’m going with this.

Only thing is the teen center/mall development conflict is ten times more realistic than a mainstream neighborhood group in 2104 being as vociferous as the Beacon Hill neighborhood crowd is. Having a tin ear is not enough to describe these sheltered-trust-fund-slave-trade-inherited-sons-of-bitches.

If this were a script for a film it would be sent back for lacking realism and creativity. .

Might as well have an alien named Kazoo come down and hang out above the Mayor’s left shoulder mocking every move he makes but also saving his ass now and then instead of the Beacon Hill Civil Association taking on Mayor Walsh over handicapped sidewalk ramps. More believable.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/the-mayor-v-beacon-hill-over-wheelchair-ramps-where-have-i-seen-this-movie-before/feed/0Guess What Four Weeks From Today Is? – Now Will Artie T. Do The Right Thing and Tell The Workers To Go Back To Work? – Robin Williams Nailed It As a MA State Workerhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/guess-what-four-weeks-from-today-is-now-will-artie-t-do-the-right-thing-and-tell-the-workers-to-go-back-to-work-robin-williams-nailed-it-as-a-ma-state-worker/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/guess-what-four-weeks-from-today-is-now-will-artie-t-do-the-right-thing-and-tell-the-workers-to-go-back-to-work-robin-williams-nailed-it-as-a-ma-state-worker/#commentsTue, 12 Aug 2014 19:49:05 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71405Guess what four weeks from today is? Anyone? Bueller? Think people, think. It’s a big deal. Tuesday September 9th. A day when all citizens of Massachusetts should remember that nobody is above the law and the power is in the people.

Now I’ve heard though the grape vine that it is also state primary day. Who knew? Probably overshadowed by the anniversary. Understandable. Who picked this day to be primary day? Like a must-attend-out-of-town-wedding on Christmas. Who steals the limelight from Christmas? (Unless of course you’re a Chinese restaurant or the first day of release for a Hollywood blockbuster. They’re grandfathered in)

Primary Day.

Here’s what I see.

Governor: Steve Grossman edging out Martha Coakley through organization and slightly less than hurricane weather conditions. (Really Steve, you better excite your base, those people with organizations who like you will turn them loose if they think you can win. If not you’re just getting lip service)

Attorney General – Warren Tolman is Steve Grossman running against Martha Coakley. Meaning Healy is Martha redux only with no political experience and an organization made up primarily of the gay marriage organizers (mostly from the lesbian side) who aren’t already working hard as hard can be for Martha. Healy also doesn’t dig privacy rights.

Warren is Grossman except he has a personality, knows how to campaign, is good at raising dough, didn’t come from money or a political family, and worked his way up. And oh yeah, his brother heads up the MA AFLCIO.

Treasurer: Barry Feingold because him and Conroy are the only ones I can think who are running and Conroy is just too big for Massachusetts. His talents should not be wasted on little ole us. You people see this, right? Isn’t obvious? We are so lucky to have him, don’t you think?

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So Market Baske employees have until Friday to shit or get off the pot. Go back to work or deemed to have abandoned their jobs. Unemployment insurance doesn’t get handed out in these circumstances.

(Perhaps the case can be made that the thugs and hard asses who are managers and bosses but also doing Artie T. bidding created a hostile workplace causing them to abandon their jobs. a de facto firing without cause.)

Anyway the headlines are fading. Tony Stewart killed a guy and Robin Williams killed himself. Life goes on. Summer’s almost over and people have their own problems. They’re also tired of it but no matter when, two days, two weeks, two months or two years, they re-open and as long the food is still fresh, prices significantly lower than Shaws and Stop & Shop, and the selection close to the same as now the place will make more money than ever.

Won’t matter who’s checking people out, managing the delis, or running the IT department.

Artie T. has to end this well planned, well executed, and well marketed cult of personality by telling the working men and women they can’t afford to and should not lose their jobs for him. It’s morally and ethically wrong.

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Robin William had his dream role in Good Will Hunting. A state worker. His checks were signed by Joe Malone I believe. A professor at Bunker Hill Community College.

That’s why he had time to wander around the Public Gardens. It’s what state workers do. Usually for an hour or so to digest the food they ate during their hour lunch. (suppose to be half-hout but, you know, who can eat in a half hour)

Then back to the office and if the timing is right you’re 15 minutes away from the afternoon coffee break. Downstairs to coffee stand run by a blind guy or if a nice day you stroll over to Dunkin Donuts. If you smoke all the better.

Now back to work. What’s this? It’s almost 3:30. Where does the day go? You’re suppose to work until 4:30 but hey, it’s not your day to man the counter so at 4:00 better start getting ready to make the break.

Second thought start getting ready around ten minutes to. That way you can catch the bus that comes ten minutes before the one you grab when you leave at five past.

(Getting ready btw means shutting off the computer)

Sad for so many reasons. He was a true original.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/guess-what-four-weeks-from-today-is-now-will-artie-t-do-the-right-thing-and-tell-the-workers-to-go-back-to-work-robin-williams-nailed-it-as-a-ma-state-worker/feed/1Arthur S. Forcing Arthur T. Demoulas to Show His Hand – More Margaret Marshall Writings on the Nefarious Blackmailing Artie T. Demoulashttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/arthur-s-forcing-arthur-t-demoulas-to-show-his-hand/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/arthur-s-forcing-arthur-t-demoulas-to-show-his-hand/#commentsMon, 11 Aug 2014 02:08:37 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71348Team Arthur S. has called Artie T. Demoulas’s bluff. “Sure”, they said, “We’ll sell out and take your offer Artie. Just write us a check and we’ll call it a day. What’s that? You want us to take a note? Hmm, none of the other bidders want is to do that. Okay. But we have to make sure we’re going to get paid. And based on past dealings you have bad credit with us.”

So Artie T (Larry Rasky) puts out a press release today saying press releases aren’t the way to negotiate and he doesn’t have the money to buy it so the other shareholders better sell on his terms which includes financing the deal or else suffer the consequences. Okay Artie you win the battle of p.r. firms right now but I think you have to come clean with the employees.

Artie T. doesn’t have the wherewithal to pull this off and Arthur S. knows it so he’s gonna let this play out so he can say they tried then sell to Hannaford’s German parent company. I don’t think the Germans will be as patient with these pestilent employees, do you? Let’s ask the Polish, see what they think.

We turn now to the background of this case, whose factual complexity requires a lengthy summary.

1. Background. We draw our recitation of facts from those found by the special hearing officer and adopted by the board, reserving recitation of certain facts for later discussion, as appropriate, and noting discrepancies where they occur. See Matter of Hilson, 448 Mass. 603 , 604 (2007). We focus on the facts most relevant to the information filed against Curry. For further details of the findings of the special hearing officer, see Matter of Crossen, post 533 (2008) (Crossen).

a. Demoulas litigation. This bar disciplinary proceeding has its origins in the protracted legal warfare between the family of George Demoulas and the family of Telemachus Demoulas over interests in the family supermarket business. See Demoulas v. Demoulas, 432 Mass. 43 , 44 (2000) (recounting history of intrafamily litigation); Demoulas v. Demoulas Super Mkts., Inc., 424 Mass. 501 , 504-509 (1997) (recounting substance of dispute). See also Demoulas v. Demoulas, 428 Mass. 555 (1998). Here we summarize only the most salient facts, beginning in 1990. By that time, Demoulas Super Markets, Inc. (DSM), and other entities jointly owned by the families of brothers George and Telemachus Demoulas were estimated to be worth approximately $1 billion. [Note 3] Two law suits filed in Superior Court in 1990 by

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George’s family [Note 4] against Telemachus and his family would eventually determine ownership and control of the bulk of the Demoulas fortune. The first lawsuit alleged that the Telemachus Demoulas defendants had fraudulently transferred stock from George’s family to themselves, and that Telemachus’s children had fraudulently received 400 shares of DSM stock belonging to George’s family (stock transfer case). The second suit, brought by Arthur S. Demoulas, George’s son, while the first case was pending, alleged that the Telemachus branch of the family had diverted corporate opportunities from DSM to entities the defendants separately controlled (shareholder derivative case). Superior Court Judge Maria Lopez presided over both cases.

The stock transfer case was tried before a jury. Judge Lopez directed verdicts for Telemachus’s children on certain counts. Subsequently, in May, 1994, the jury returned verdicts in favor of George’s family against Telemachus and his family for breach of duty related to the fraudulent transfer of stock and other interests belonging to the plaintiffs. Judge Lopez reserved the issue of damages.

The shareholder derivative case was tried before Judge Lopez without a jury from December 12, 1994, through May 15, 1995. Her decision was entered on August 3, 1995. Judge Lopez’s law clerk for the trial was then in his second year of clerkship for the Superior Court; he worked on the case from the fall of 1994 until the end of August, 1995, when his clerkship ended.

Both the stock transfer case and the shareholder derivative case took fateful turns in three decisions issued by Judge Lopez in August, 1995. First, as just noted, on August 3, 1995, judgment entered in the shareholder derivative case. Judge Lopez found that the defendants had improperly diverted corporate opportunities of DSM, and ordered the rescission of certain transactions, disgorgement of improperly obtained gains, and payment of attorney’s fees, all in favor of George’s family. The next day, on August, 4, 1995, Judge Lopez, responding to a request by the plaintiffs, vacated the directed verdict for Telemachus’s children that she had issued in the stock transfer case. Her new order directed that the disputed 400 shares of DSM stock be

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held in constructive trust by Telemachus’s children for members of George’s family. Finally, on August 29, 1995, Judge Lopez amended the judgment in the shareholder derivative case to provide, among other things, for the repayment to DSM of certain cash distributions and sale proceeds, the cancellation of all promissory notes issued by DSM to shareholders, the transfer of all assets and liabilities of DSM and affiliated real estate entities to an entity held equally by George’s and Telemachus’s families, and payment of the plaintiffs’ legal fees and expenses. [Note 5] We upheld that judgment in major part and remanded the case to the Superior Court for additional findings and the issuance of orders implementing relief. See Demoulas v. Demoulas, 428 Mass. 555 , 557-558, 591-592 (1998).

With our decision affirming Judge Lopez, it was settled that Telemachus’s branch of the family would lose much of their control of the Demoulas businesses and fortune. Not surprisingly, the Telemachus Demoulas defendants were alarmed at this prospect. They were disappointed in the group of attorneys and law firms to whom they had paid millions of dollars in legal fees, and they were convinced that Judge Lopez was biased against them. [Note 6] Their suspicions of Judge Lopez were heightened by some of these attorneys, who assured them that Judge Lopez was “too dumb” to have written the Demoulas decision.

We turn now to the events germane to this disciplinary proceeding. At the time of the conduct at issue in this matter, approximately August, 1995, through August, 1997, the Demoulas litigations were still ongoing. The dockets in the Superior Court reflect numerous motions and other proceedings, and there were ongoing proceedings in both the Appeals Court and this court for several years after the events that we shall describe. See, e.g., Demoulas v. Demoulas Super Mkts., Inc., 428 Mass. 543 (1998).

b. The initial meeting with the Demoulas family. In 1995,

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Curry was a member in good standing of the Massachusetts bar, having gained admission in 1968. Early in his career he spent five and one-half years as an assistant attorney general in the office of the Massachusetts Attorney General. Curry then entered private practice.

In August, 1995, approximately two weeks after Judge Lopez issued the Demoulas decision, Curry and Ernest Reid, a private investigator who had worked with Curry in the past, sent a letter to Telemachus proposing to meet with him concerning “a matter of importance and confidence.” [Note 7], [Note 8] As a result of this communication, Curry, Reid, and members of the Demoulas family, including Telemachus and his son, Arthur T. Demoulas (Arthur T.), met at DSM headquarters in Tewksbury in early September, 1995. [Note 9] Curry told his hosts what they were apparently eager to hear: Judge Lopez had decided the shareholder derivative case against them before opening statements in the case. Specifically, he told them, among other things, that the case was “over before it began.” He proceeded to make salacious and disparaging remarks about Judge Lopez’s character on and off the bench, and also about the character of the plaintiffs’ attorneys. Curry told Telemachus and the others that Judge Lopez had previously done “a big favor” for another individual

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in “a big case.” Curry told them that their case was “fixed.” However, at the time he made this presentation, Curry, in the words of the special hearing officer, “had no documentation to support any of his scurrilous charges.”

Curry’s aim was true. Telemachus was aghast that he had “been had.” He asked Curry what could be done. Curry informed Telemachus and the others that they would need evidence of what Curry described as Judge Lopez’s “prior corrupt acts” and “judicial misconduct” to take to this court and to the media. Curry volunteered himself and Reid to produce the evidence. [Note 10] A week after the meeting, Arthur T. asked Curry and Reid to investigate Judge Lopez. [Note 11] In the ensuing twelve months, Reid mined public records for information on the personal and professional lives of Judge Lopez and of the attorneys who had worked on the Demoulas cases for George’s family. In November, 1996, Curry reviewed Judge Lopez’s written decisions to that date in an effort to determine whether the judge had written the Demoulas decision. [Note 12]

In November, 1996, Arthur T. gave Curry a resume that the law clerk, with Judge Lopez’s permission, had sent to various Demoulas defense counsel in the fall of 1995 seeking employment. Reid and Curry deduced from the resume that the law clerk was interested in international commercial civil litigation. Together they decided to contact the law clerk under the guise of offering him lucrative employment in that field. In the words of the special hearing officer, they concocted the law clerk’s “dream job.”

c. Initial meetings with the law clerk. To further their plan, Reid gathered public documents relating to the law clerk, his neighbors, his parents, and their neighbors. In April 1997, Reid

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contacted the law clerk by telephone. Using his real name, Reid told the law clerk that he was a headhunter who wished to interview him about an “attractive opportunity” as an attorney at a law firm, at a salary of $90,000 per year. The law clerk was excited, [Note 13] and Reid set up a meeting in the law clerk’s home on April 9, 1997, to discuss the “opportunity.”

At their first meeting, Reid slightly changed course. He told the law clerk (falsely) that his client was a corporation with offices in Bermuda, New York, and Boston, and that the corporation was looking for in-house counsel. Using the pretext that his client demanded a candidate with excellent writing skills, Reid then asked him if he had worked on any “cases of note” while clerking for the Superior Court. The law clerk promptly replied, “[W]e wrote the Demoulas decision.” When asked to clarify, he said, “I wrote the decision.” He also told Reid that Judge Lopez had read, but not edited, the decision. A general discussion ensued about Judge Lopez, her husband, and her husband’s businesses. Reid left with a promise to be back in touch.

The next day, Reid met Curry in Forest Hills Cemetery, where they often met for confidential talks. Among other things, Reid recounted the law clerk’s remarks about authoring the Demoulas decision, and told Curry that the law clerk had sent him a copy of the decision. Curry then telephoned Arthur T. to report what he had learned from Reid.

On May 4, 1997, Reid called the law clerk to tell him that the “client” was impressed with the writing samples, especially the Demoulas decision. Reid arranged another interview for May 7, 1997. At the second meeting, Reid again emphasized the lucrative and adventurous aspects of the fake in-house position and probed more deeply into the authorship of the Demoulas decision. Among other things, the law clerk claimed that, although he discussed the case with Judge Lopez during the lengthy trial, the legal conclusions were his. When Reid asked if the case were rightly decided, the law clerk replied, “The

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[Supreme Judicial Court] upheld me so what does it matter.” Reid said the client would like to meet him either in New York or in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to which the law clerk agreed.

d. The first sham interview (Halifax). Reid subsequently reported to Curry that he did not have the “right vibes” from the law clerk at the second meeting and could not get what he “wanted” from him. The two decided on a third meeting with the law clerk, this time in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The special hearing officer did not credit Curry’s testimony that Halifax was chosen because it was a place Reid had always wanted to visit. She concluded that Halifax was chosen because, unlike Massachusetts, Nova Scotia is a jurisdiction in which recording a conversation is legal so long as one party consents to the tape recording.

The preparations for the Halifax interview were substantial. The plan was for Curry to present himself to the law clerk as “Kevin Concave,” an employee of a fictitious British Pacific Surplus Risks, Ltd. (British Pacific), an “international insurance underwriting business.” Richard LaBonte, a private detective recommended by Reid, would also be present at the Halifax interview. [Note 14] LaBonte was to pose as “Richard LaBlanc,” another British Pacific employee. Reid and Curry arranged for business cards to be printed with the aliases of Curry and LaBonte. The business cards listed an address for British Pacific that was an actual address in London, a working facsimile number, and a telephone number that was answered by a person with an English accent when the law clerk called, as he later did. Curry and the two investigators also discussed whether the meeting with the law clerk should be tape recorded. The special hearing officer found that a decision not to tape record the interview was made during a telephone conference among the three in Halifax prior to the interview. [Note 15]

Reid provided LaBonte with extensive documentation concerning

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the law clerk. He scripted a set of interview questions. Some time before June 5, 1997, Curry gave Reid a round-trip airline ticket to Halifax and $300 in cash, both of which Reid passed on to the law clerk. The money was allegedly to compensate the law clerk for missing a day’s work. [Note 16]

On June 5, 1997, the law clerk flew to Halifax. At a meeting room in the Citadel Hotel, he met “Kevin Concave” (Curry), who was introduced as the director of operations at British Pacific, and “Richard LaBlanc” (LaBonte), “the person who put out fires” for the company. As the interview progressed from introductory generalities to specifics about the supposed job, the law clerk began to stutter. “Concave” told the law clerk that they knew he stuttered, and reassured him that they were interested primarily in his writing skills. When he asked how they knew he stuttered, Curry produced a recommendation letter mentioning his stutter that had been written by attorney Stephen Mulcahy in support of the law clerk’s application for admission to the Massachusetts bar. The law clerk then volunteered that he did not personally know Mulcahy, but that Mulcahy had written the required recommendation letter as a favor to a mutual acquaintance, another attorney, who was unable to submit a letter. [Note 17] The information about the bar recommendation letter was news to Curry and LaBonte.

The interview then proceeded with Curry spinning tales about the worldwide reach of British Pacific and the “adventures” the law clerk would have around the world in his work for the company. He told the law clerk that he would be paid in excess of $90,000 per year, in part to compensate him and his wife for lengthy stays they would be required to make in different countries. Then followed a series of questions by Curry and

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LaBonte that was, in the words of the special hearing officer, “unquestionably designed to inquire into . . . Judge Lopez’s deliberative process in the Demoulas decision, as well as to elicit potentially damaging personal information about her.” Curry emphasized that writing skills were extremely important for the job. He told the law clerk, falsely, that attorney Robert Shaw was British Pacific’s outside counsel, who had reviewed the Demoulas decision and was very impressed. [Note 18] Curry then asked how the law clerk could have written the entire decision, as he claimed. According to the testimony of Curry and LaBonte, the law clerk told them that Judge Lopez was biased and predisposed to find for the plaintiffs, and that she had told him before the trial started who “the good guys and the bad guys” were, and who the “winner and losers” were going to be. Curry and LaBonte also testified that the law clerk made negative comments about Judge Lopez’s work habits and deliberately downplayed her contributions to the decision. The law clerk, in turn, testified that he had not made the statements attributed to him about Judge Lopez’s predisposition in the Demoulas case. The special hearing officer, who credited most of the law clerk’s testimony, did not credit his testimony on this issue. She concluded that he had indeed made statements to LaBonte and Curry about Judge Lopez’s alleged predisposition against the Telemachus Demoulas defendants. She also concluded that Curry exaggerated and misrepresented the nature of the law clerk’s statements about Judge Lopez, both to Arthur T. and in this bar discipline proceeding.

Curry and LaBonte concluded the sham interview by asking a series of questions about the law clerk’s personal life, among them, his wife’s ancestry and the extent of her college and law school debt; the occupations of his parents, brothers, and sisters; and whether he had ever done anything illegal or had any “skeletons in [his] closet.” These questions, the special hearing officer found, were designed to elicit “compromising information” to use against the law clerk.

e. The aftermath of the Halifax sham interview. Back in

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Boston, Curry relayed to Arthur T., “I think we got him.” On June 8, 1997, Arthur T., in turn, told Gary Crossen, one of the Telemachus Demoulas family defense counsel, about Curry and Reid and the Halifax sham. See Crossen, supra at 538-539. Crossen was unimpressed with the report that the law clerk claimed to have written the entire Demoulas decision. However, he believed that the information that Judge Lopez had prejudged the case to be both “troubling” and “significant.” See id.

The same day he met with Crossen, Arthur T. also met with Curry to suggest that Crossen draft Curry’s affidavit about the interview. Curry took offense at this suggestion and drafted his own affidavit. In his statement, Curry swore that the law clerk had declared four times during the course of the interview that Judge Lopez was “predisposed to find for the Plaintiffs,” and that she had told him who the “bad guys and the good guys were” and who the “winners were going to be before the case began.” Curry also averred that the law clerk claimed to have written the entire Demoulas decision, and that his bar application contained a letter of recommendation from an attorney who did not know him. [Note 19] Curry signed, but did not date, the affidavit, which he gave to Crossen.

LaBonte also drafted an affidavit, with the help of his own counsel. LaBonte’s affidavit indicates that the law clerk claimed “[o]n several occasions . . . that Judge Lopez was predisposed to find for the Plaintiff[s]” and that “before the start of the Trial . . . Judge Lopez told [the law clerk] that he will easily tell who was lying and that the Plaintiff[s'] physical evidence will be overwhelming.” LaBonte signed and dated the affidavit and transmitted it by facsimile to Curry the next day. [Note 20]

On June 9, 1997, Curry met in Crossen’s office with Arthur

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T. and Richard K. Donahue, another member of the defense team. [Note 21] The men discussed how best to make use of what Crossen considered the most important information from the Halifax sham interview, the information concerning Judge Lopez’s alleged predisposition. Among other options, they considered filing the affidavits with the Commission on Judicial Conduct and verifying or further pursuing the Halifax information by continuing the ruse in New York or Bermuda, both one-party consent jurisdictions in which they might secretly tape record the law clerk’s comments.

On or about June 11, 1997, Crossen determined that the best course of action would be to verify the Halifax information using his own investigators. See Crossen, supra at 539-540. He concluded that the best way to do this was to continue the job ruse and secretly tape record the law clerk’s statements in New York. At a subsequent planning meeting for the New York “interview” attended by Crossen, three of his investigators, and Arthur T., Curry spoke about how the second interview should be conducted based on Curry’s experiences with the law clerk.

The group ultimately decided that the law clerk would be told that the New York interview would be with a “decision maker” at British Pacific, a “Peter O’Hara.” O’Hara’s role was to be played by Peter Rush, a private investigator who previously had worked as a United States Secret Service special agent-in-charge in Boston. The planning group, which included Curry, also decided that LaBonte, whom the law clerk knew as “Richard LaBlanc” of British Pacific, should be present at the interview, and that Crossen and Stewart Henry, a private investigator, would go to New York to “monitor” the situation. We discuss the details of the New York interview in Crossen, supra at 542-545. Here it is sufficient to note that Curry was a

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reluctant supporter of the New York plan, arguing instead that his and LaBonte’s affidavits were sufficient to proceed with action to have Judge Lopez removed from the case.

On the day of the interview, June 17, 1997, Curry arrived unexpectedly at the New York hotel suite where the interview was to take place to reiterate his opposition to the plan. Crossen disagreed. Curry remained at the hotel suite for approximately fifteen minutes, during which time he made a call from his cellular telephone and was heard to say, “Everything looks okay to me. It’s all set. . . . Anything else you want . . . . Okay. I’m out of here.” [Note 22] He was not present for the interview. Curry’s fear of being displaced by the defendants’ regular counsel had come to pass. For purposes of this bar disciplinary proceeding, his role in the law clerk matter was over.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/arthur-s-forcing-arthur-t-demoulas-to-show-his-hand/feed/18Why Has The Globe Not Reported On Gaming Commission Stripping Boston of Surrounding Community Status? – Margaret Marshall Details Artie T. Demoulas’s Blackmailing Operation. Check It Outhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/why-has-the-globe-not-reported-on-gaming-commission-stripping-boston-of-surrounding-community-status-check-out-what-margaret-marshall-wrote-about-artie-t-demoulas/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/why-has-the-globe-not-reported-on-gaming-commission-stripping-boston-of-surrounding-community-status-check-out-what-margaret-marshall-wrote-about-artie-t-demoulas/#commentsSun, 10 Aug 2014 04:00:43 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71332If I’m wrong I apologize. Perhaps David can help me out. But on Thursday of this week the Mass Gaming Commission made an arguably game changing decision by taking back Boston’s “surrounding community” designation. This is a big deal. No need to explain again. Trust me, it’s big.

Yet despite past detailed reporting by The Globe on the Gaming Commission and what it’s been up to, paying close attention to Mayor Walsh’s battle with The Big Boys from Vegas, this decision has yet to be reported.

Again, if I missed it I’m sorry. But if The Globe hasn’t reported it then all signs point to an agenda, don’t you think? What else could it be?

For all you doubters out there below is a portion of a court decision written by former SJC Chief Justice Margaret Marshall reciting established facts that show a dark side of Arthur T. Demoulas. Great read. Later I’ll post the facts of another SJC case that adds more sinister details to his blackmailing enterprise.

450 Mass 533 In The Matter of Gary Crossen

MARSHALL, C.J The background to this disciplinary proceeding begins in 1994, when Crossen filed an appearance for Frances Kettenbach, daughter of Telemachus Demoulas, in the shareholder derivative suit filed against Telemachus, his wife, and their children [Note 4] by members of the George Demoulas branch of the family. See Curry, supra at 507. One of Crossen’s first actions as counsel in that case was to file an “emergency motion” for recusal of Superior Court Judge Maria Lopez, or in the alternative, for an evidentiary hearing on the recusal motion before

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another judge. The essence of the emergency motion was that Judge Lopez’s actions in a former case involving the Demoulas family dispute had demonstrated bias against Crossen’s clients. See Demoulas v. Demoulas, 432 Mass. 43 , 45 (2000). The emergency motion was denied.

Looming were accountings and a merger of assets that would deprive Telemachus’s family group of much of their control of the family businesses and fortune, this despite millions of dollars in legal fees that had been paid by that group to prominent Boston law firms and attorneys. [Note 6] The contemplated second recusal motion was an attempt to stop, or at least slow, the merger of assets and its attendant divestment of a substantial portion of Crossen’s clients’ assets by disqualifying Judge Lopez and, ultimately, having her previous findings and orders set aside.

We turn now to the key events in this disciplinary proceeding against Crossen.

at the latter’s request at the Demoulas corporate offices in Tewksbury. There Crossen learned for the first time that, in 1995, Arthur T. had hired attorney Kevin Curry and two investigators, Ernest Reid and Richard LaBonte, to conduct a “pretext investigation . . . to figure out who wrote the Demoulas decision.” [Note 8] Arthur T. told Crossen that Curry and LaBonte, using assumed identities, had met with a former law clerk of Judge Lopez (law clerk) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, under the pretext of interviewing the law clerk for a position as in-house counsel for a sham multinational corporation. Arthur T. reported that the law clerk claimed to have written the entire Demoulas decision, and that Judge Lopez had signed the decision without reading it. More significantly, Arthur T. told Crossen that the law clerk had said that Judge Lopez had told him (the law clerk) who the winners and losers, the “good guys” and the “bad guys,” were going to be before the shareholder derivative suit began. Crossen dismissed as “not that big a deal” the information concerning authorship of the Demoulas decision, but he was troubled by the information that Judge Lopez had prejudged his clients’ case.

That same day Crossen met with Arthur T. and another attorney for the defendants, Richard K. Donahue, [Note 9] to discuss the import of the Halifax interview. Crossen testified before the special hearing officer that he considered his only options at the time to be ignoring the information, incorporating it into a motion or pleading or complaint, or investigating further to determine the truth. At the time, Crossen testified, he did not “give[ ] a whole lot of thought to the issue of the propriety” of Curry’s communications with the law clerk.

Some time after the June 8 meetings, Crossen received a signed affidavit from Curry in which the latter averred that during the Halifax “interview,” the law clerk on four separate occasions had disclosed Judge Lopez’s predisposition against Crossen’s clients; that the law clerk claimed to have written the

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Demoulas decision himself; and that the law clerk had submitted a letter attesting his fitness for admission to the Massachusetts bar that was written by someone whom the law clerk did not know. See Curry, supra at n.19. Soon after receiving Curry’s affidavit, Crossen decided to procure tape-recorded statements of the law clerk by interviewing and secretly tape recording him in a jurisdiction that permits one-party consent, which Massachusetts does not. See G. L. c. 272, § 99 (B) (4) & (C) (1). [Note 10]

Crossen then set about to implement his plan. He directed an associate at his law firm to review the laws of Canada and a Caribbean jurisdiction (either Bermuda or the Bahamas) to determine whether one-party consent to tape recording communications was permitted in either jurisdiction. To assess Curry’s credibility, Crossen also directed the associate to discover what he could about Curry. In addition, Crossen met personally with Curry to discuss the information Curry claimed he had learned from the law clerk, and what to do with it. Among other things, the two men discussed continuing the ruse and secretly tape recording the law clerk’s statements in a one-party consent jurisdiction such as New York or Bermuda. At some point in early June, Crossen also discussed the surreptitious tape-recording plan with Donahue. Donahue questioned Crossen about the propriety of such an investigation; he testified before the special hearing officer that Crossen “said he was having [the matter] looked into, and that he was not concerned with it and that basically I shouldn’t be.”

Between June 9 and June 12, Crossen consulted about the planned subterfuge with Donahue, Curry, and others, including two private investigators who were working with Crossen on

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the Charles Restaurant investigation, Stewart Henry and Joseph McCain. The group decided that the law clerk would be asked to go to the Four Seasons Hotel in New York, a one-party-consent jurisdiction, for a “further interview” for an in-house counsel position with a phantom multinational reinsurance firm, British Pacific Surplus Risks, Ltd. (British Pacific). See Curry, supra at 512, 516-517. Unbeknownst to the law clerk, the interview would be tape recorded. The group’s plan was to catch the law clerk unawares by having him repeat the assertions Curry claimed he had made in Halifax concerning Judge Lopez’s predispositions about the Demoulas decision. At that point, Crossen would “brace,” [Note 11] or aggressively confront, the law clerk with the tape recorded-statements in order to gain his cooperation in giving an affidavit or sworn testimony against Judge Lopez. [Note 12]

The group decided that Reid, resuming his guise as a job consultant, see Curry, supra at 510-511, would contact the law clerk about interviewing with some British Pacific “decision makers.” In New York LaBonte, reprising his role in Halifax as British Pacific employee Richard LaBlanc, would be one of the interviewers. See Curry, supra at 516. The part of “Peter O’Hara,” a “principal” in British Pacific, would be played by Joseph Peter Rush, a private investigator who previously had worked as a United States Secret Service special agent-in-charge in Boston. [Note 13] Crossen and Henry would “monitor” developments

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from an adjoining room. [Note 14] A tape-recording technician would complete the New York contingent. Crossen was to be the sole decision maker on whether to “brace” the law clerk once the law clerk uttered the “magic words” concerning Judge Lopez’s predisposition.

Other members of Crossen’s team besides Donahue felt uncomfortable with their intended methods. During the planning process, Rush asked Crossen whether the New York interview was ethical and legal. Rush was particularly concerned to know whether it was permissible for him, as a private citizen, to conduct a sham interview and secretly make a tape recording of the interview with the law clerk, another private citizen. Crossen assured Rush that, in Rush’s words, Crossen “had researched the legalities and ethics of it and that it was legal.” Crossen also reassured Rush that, again in Rush’s words, “it’s been cleared by ethics.” Rush testified that he “took that to believe [Crossen's] firm had an ethical committee, and it had been run through them and they had okayed it.” [Note 15] “In fact,” the special hearing officer found, “Crossen never discussed any issue regarding the Demoulas case with [his] firm’s committee on conflicts and professional responsibility.” Based on Crossen’s assurances that, in Rush’s words, the “legal and ethical bases had been touched,” Rush agreed to participate in the sham interview.

Crossen, Henry, LaBonte, and Rush decided that Rush would carry a concealed tape recorder in the pocket of a spare jacket and that Crossen and Henry would monitor the interview by silent videotape recording in the adjacent room of the suite.

c. The sham interview in New York. Prior to the interview, Reid delivered airplane tickets, one hundred dollars in cash, and O’Hara’s name to the law clerk. When he arrived in New York,

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the law clerk was met by a chauffeur who drove him to the hotel in a Mercedes limousine. [Note 16]

The ruse interview lasted approximately one and one-half hours. Rush, as O’Hara, began by (falsely) explaining the nature of British Pacific’s reinsurance business and its opportunities for travel and interesting work. [Note 17] Rush then explained (again falsely) that Shaw was unable to attend the interview but had been “very laudatory” about the law clerk’s writing skills. He reassured the law clerk that the law clerk’s speech impediment, see Curry, supra at 513, would not be a barrier to his employment by British Pacific because the company was most concerned with hiring “new blood” who could “write the facts in a manner which is favorable to our partnership . . . .” Rush also raised the law clerk’s submission of a letter of support for his bar application written by an attorney who falsely claimed to know the law clerk. See Curry, supra at 515 n.19.

Conversation then turned to what Rush called the “Demopolis” case. The law clerk explained that he was able to write the decision on his own because he had sat through the trial and he and Judge Lopez had discussed the witnesses at the end of each day of the trial. [Note 18] He also told his interlocutors that he had begun writing the decision shortly before the trial ended. [Note 19] The law clerk’s responses to questions concerning Judge Lopez’s

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alleged predisposition were decidedly more equivocal and weaker than they were alleged to have been in Halifax. [Note 20], [Note 21]

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At one point during the interview, Rush took a break and went to the adjoining suite to tell Crossen and Henry that he believed the law clerk’s statements to be “very weak.” Crossen instructed Rush to resume the interview and attempt to “clarify the issue of” Judge Lopez’s predisposition. Soon thereafter, LaBonte was summoned out of the room because Rush was afraid that he was being so persistent about the Demoulas decision that the law clerk would become suspicious. When LaBonte went to the room where Crossen and Henry were viewing the videotape recording, he told them that the law clerk was stuttering badly, and that they would give the law clerk a “heart attack” if they were to “brace” him. [Note 22] Crossen replied that they “would see.” The law clerk was not “braced” that day.

d. Preparations to confront the law clerk. After reviewing the tape recording of the interview, Crossen reported to Arthur T. that it was a “mixed bag,” and that he had not “braced” the law clerk. Upon returning to Boston, Crossen met with Henry, McCain, and Edward Barshak and Susan Hartnett, two other members of the Telemachus Demoulas family defense team who were partners at another Boston law firm, and told them about the New York interview. Once again Crossen was asked whether there was “any issue” related to contact with a judge’s former law clerk. Crossen stated that he did not think so, but would look into the matter. The record does not reveal whether the defense team discussed the appropriateness of contacting a former law clerk regarding an ongoing matter in which their clients were litigants.

On June 20, Crossen asked a second associate at his firm to research whether it was proper to speak with a former law clerk

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concerning conversations between the law clerk and the judge. [Note 23] The associate reported later that day that, although he had been unable to find an explicit ban on contacts with former law clerks, a limited privilege may prevail between judges and their clerks, and that even absent such privilege, policy arguments disfavored such contact. He left a number of cases on Crossen’s chair, with notes, including cases dealing with contacts with former jurors. Crossen did not ask the associate to follow up this initial research.

That same day, June 20, Judge Lopez ordered the long-delayed merger of Demoulas assets to take place. An emergency meeting of the Telemachus Demoulas family defense team, consisting of at least twelve lawyers from leading Boston law firms, was called for June 23 to discuss filing a recusal motion based on the Charles Restaurant investigation. Barshak’s firm had been tasked with drafting the motion to recuse based on affidavits obtained by Crossen and his investigators on the Charles Restaurant matter. Prior to the June 23 meeting, which Arthur T. was also expected to attend, Crossen sent a copy of the tape recording of the New York “interview” and a transcript to Barshak, who reviewed the material with two of his colleagues.

The emergency meeting focused first on the Charles River investigation, but soon turned to the law clerk matter. Attorneys who had not known of the investigation were apprised of it by Arthur T., with Crossen adding further information about the Halifax and New York interviews. Crossen also distributed transcripts of the New York interview to the meeting’s participants. Some attorneys, including Barshak, John P. Sullivan, Judith Dein, and Samuel Adams opined that the information was worthless or should not be pursued further. Adams and Sullivan also voiced reservations about Curry’s credibility based on their prior dealings with him. According to Adams, when Dein asked Crossen whether it was ethical to “approach a law clerk who had been on a case you tried,” Crossen replied that “they had researched that, and, while [there were] issues that related to approaching a juror, that prohibition did not relate to a

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law clerk.” Crossen told the group he thought the law clerk information was “persuasive” and should be included in the motion to recuse.

At the end of the two-and-one-half hour meeting, the group decided not to include the information obtained from the law clerk in the motion to recuse Judge Lopez. On June 25, the motion to recuse Judge Lopez was filed, based solely on the Charles Restaurant investigation. On July 21, Judge Lopez heard the motion and denied it.

Arthur T., however, told Crossen and Donahue privately that he did not want to let the law clerk matter drop. Crossen suggested that a logical step would be to confront the law clerk and, in the special hearing officer’s words, “ask him to tell the truth about what had happened.” Donahue met separately with Arthur T. and told him that Barshak would leave the defense team if any of the law clerk material was used. Neither Crossen nor Donahue told Barshak or Adams about their subsequent dealings with the law clerk.

On July 24, Reid made reservations for “Peter O’Hara” at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston for an August 2 meeting with the law clerk. On August 1, Crossen, Curry, Donahue, Arthur T., Rush, Reid, McCain, and Henry met at the offices of Crossen’s law firm to discuss strategy for this upcoming meeting. The participants knew that Reid had told the law clerk that this meeting would be his final “interview” for the British Pacific job. [Note 24] They decided on a free-form interview that would (1) apprise the law clerk of the ruse, (2) serve to determine whether the law clerk would verify the statements attributed to him in Halifax and parts of his New York interview, and (3) gauge the law clerk’s willingness to cooperate with defendants’ counsel by confirming the statements in an affidavit or otherwise. The group also decided to have the law clerk followed after the meeting in case the law clerk attempted to contact Judge Lopez

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or the Demoulas plaintiffs’ counsel. McCain and his associates were given the job of surveillance.

e. Confrontation of the law clerk. Soon after the law clerk arrived at the appointed suite in the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, Rush told the law clerk to listen carefully because he would hear something that would send him on the “roller coaster of [his] life” and elicit a range of emotions and “concern for the future.” But, Rush added, “if you cooperate with us, it will be okay.” Rush then laid out for the dumbfounded law clerk the details of the British Pacific ruse. The law clerk almost immediately connected the dupery with the Demoulas decision and with Crossen, whom he had earlier seen in the lobby. Rush explained to the law clerk, who by this time was enraged, who his clients were.

Crossen then entered the room. He and the law clerk had words about the motion to recuse, and the ruse. The law clerk yelled at Crossen for doing nothing to stop the chicanery, and Crossen replied that, while he was not entirely comfortable with the tape recording, he had “inherited the ruse” and it was not something he could stop. He told the law clerk that the present meeting was not being tape recorded because this was not legal in Massachusetts, but that Halifax and New York were one-party consent jurisdictions. Crossen did nothing to dispel the impression conveyed by Rush that tape recordings had been made of both the Halifax and New York sham interviews. [Note 25] The law clerk angrily denied that he had written the entire Demoulas decision and claimed to have been “puffing” when he previously had proclaimed otherwise. He also refused to answer repeated questions about Judge Lopez’s predisposition, saying that the Demoulas defendants had received a fair trial.

Crossen told the law clerk that he could not control what his clients would do with the information they had; that if the law clerk did not “help him” there would be a “missile” fired “that’s out of my control and it’s off, and I don’t know where it goes and what it ends up doing”; that he, Crossen, needed a

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“candid conversation” with the law clerk “about what really happened here”; and other statements that the special hearing officer, correctly in our view, characterized as threats. Donahue told the law clerk that, if he did not cooperate with them, the false letter submitted with his bar application would be made public. [Note 26]

The law clerk asked numerous times to hear the “tapes” or read transcripts of the Halifax and New York tape recordings himself, but Crossen refused to permit this. After some forty minutes, the law clerk got up to leave. Crossen told the law clerk to retain a lawyer, talk the matter over with his wife, and to telephone either Donahue or Crossen on Monday.

f. Further threats and surveillance. The law clerk was so visibly shaken and upset when he left the meeting that McCain, who was following him, thought he might be suicidal. The law clerk went to the offices of his employer where named law partner Robert Sullivan found him alone in a conference room, crying. The law clerk told Sullivan what happened. Sullivan promptly contacted attorney Harry Manion, who agreed to represent the law clerk. The law clerk then went home to see his wife. A delivery person appeared at their door with a pizza the couple had not ordered. The law clerk noticed a man with a mobile telephone sitting on a bench across from his apartment house, the same man who had been there when the law clerk had left for work in the morning.

On Manion’s advice, the law clerk began drafting an affidavit. On August 4, the law clerk met with agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a meeting Manion had arranged. The law clerk’s affidavit and a supplemental affidavit were given to the FBI and also provided to Judge Lopez and her attorney. The Federal agents told the law clerk that his affidavit

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did not provide substantial evidence of what had occurred and urged him to agree to wear a recording device to capture Crossen’s statements that he had the “tapes,” as well as Crossen’s threats to the law clerk. After some hesitation, the law clerk agreed to do so.

On August 20, after exchanging several telephone calls, the law clerk and Crossen met at the latter’s office. There they had a lengthy conversation, which was secretly tape recorded by the law clerk for the FBI. The law clerk repeatedly asked Crossen whether he could listen to the “tapes,” claiming that he did not recall some of the statements attributed to him in the sham interviews, and that listening to the tape recordings would help him determine his next steps. Crossen adamantly refused, telling him “that is just not going to happen.” Crossen did tell the law clerk that the information about Judge Lopez’s predisposition would “come out one way or the other,” and he again urged the law clerk to have a “candid conversation” with him about Judge Lopez’s predisposition. Crossen told the law clerk that, while he (Crossen) could not guarantee that the false bar application letter would not be made public by other counsel, he would do his best to see that the letter was not introduced in evidence or to minimize the damage if it were. The special hearing officer found that the law clerk understood from Crossen’s comments that “if he helped Crossen, Crossen would not bring up the bar letter.”

The special hearing officer also determined that the “candid conversation” Crossen was urging meant a conversation in which the law clerk stated that Judge Lopez was predisposed against Crossen’s clients: no other statement from the law clerk would have satisfied Crossen. [Note 27] The meeting concluded on a note of urgency. While the special hearing officer did not summarize the remainder of the conversation, the transcript entered in evidence establishes that Crossen told the law clerk that a hearing on the interlocutory appeal of Judge Lopez’s denial of the Charles Restaurant recusal motion was scheduled to take place in five days before a single justice of the Appeals Court.

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As a result, he said, he and the client were “making strategic decisions day to day.” Crossen stated that “the client knows the information is there” and might direct the attorneys to use the information at or before the Appeals Court hearing. [Note 28] Crossen told the law clerk to get back to him within twenty-four hours.

The following day, Crossen and the law clerk spoke by telephone. Again, the law clerk secretly tape recorded the conversation at the request of the FBI. The law clerk and Crossen repeated their respective, contradictory demands about the “tapes.” After the law clerk again refused to help Crossen without hearing the tape recordings, Crossen told the law clerk that “you’re going to find yourself in a situation that is gonna be very troublesome to you and the lawyers that recommended you” for admission to the bar. He urged the law clerk to hire independent counsel, saying: “It’s, it’s gonna be a very harmful road for you, you [ought to] talk to somebody before this hits.” After more wrangling about the tape recordings, Crossen offered to let the law clerk listen to a “small segment” to satisfy himself that the tape recordings existed. The law clerk agreed to the proposal. They agreed to meet the next day at Crossen’s office. Prior to the meeting, Crossen and Donahue decided to play the portion of the New York tape recording dealing with the false bar letter because, in the words of the special hearing officer, “they knew that it was [the law clerk's] Achilles heel, and they intended to use that to pressure and intimidate [the law clerk] into cooperating with them by giving them an affidavit on Judge Lopez’s alleged predisposition in the [s]hareholder [d]erivative [c]ase.” [Note 29]

On August 22, a Friday, the law clerk met with Crossen, Donahue, and McCain at Crossen’s office. Crossen played a portion of the tape recording in which the law clerk and Rush discussed the false letter recommending the law clerk for admission

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to the bar. The law clerk stated: “You’ve got tapes.” Crossen replied, “We have tapes.”

Crossen told the law clerk that the tape recording would be played in the court room on the “best equipment,” to override its poor quality. He told the law clerk that “[w]e’re on a fast moving train here” and that “the train is ready to pull out of the station.” He reiterated the need to have a “full blown discussion” with the law clerk “as soon as possible” about Judge Lopez’s predisposition. They arranged to meet again early the following Monday. [Note 30]

On Monday, August 25, rather than meeting Crossen, the law clerk left a voice mail message telling Crossen that he (the law clerk) was required to be out of town. McCain’s investigators, however, later informed Crossen that the law clerk was actually in Boston that day. On learning the news, Crossen telephoned the law clerk’s home.

The law clerk returned Crossen’s telephone call the following day. Crossen told the law clerk he was “a little bit angry” to learn that the law clerk had been at home on the day of the canceled meeting. The law clerk accused Crossen of having him followed; Crossen denied the charge. [Note 31] Crossen then told the law clerk that “if we don’t get something done before” Thursday, he was not “optimistic” that the client “won’t insist upon me dropping the hammer, if you will.” Crossen suggested that they meet early the next evening because he could no longer keep his client “[reined] in.”

On August 28, the law clerk left Crossen a voice mail message

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saying he was going out of town and would contact Crossen when he returned. On August 29, the FBI served grand jury subpoenas on McCain, LaBonte, Rush, and Reid. On that day, Crossen learned that the FBI also was investigating his contacts with the law clerk. The law clerk and Manion held a press conference about the matter on September 17, 1997.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/why-has-the-globe-not-reported-on-gaming-commission-stripping-boston-of-surrounding-community-status-check-out-what-margaret-marshall-wrote-about-artie-t-demoulas/feed/10Gaming Commission Moves Goal Post and Comes Step Closer to Handing “Shirley Ave. Steve” Wynn a Casino Licensehttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/gaming-commission-came-step-closer-yesterday-to-handing-steve-wynn-a-gaming-license/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/gaming-commission-came-step-closer-yesterday-to-handing-steve-wynn-a-gaming-license/#commentsFri, 08 Aug 2014 17:25:15 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71279So Back-Up Gaming Commissioner Jim McHugh and his three compadres unanimously agreed yesterday not to determine a fair payment for Steve Wynn to make to the City of Boston but instead ruled Boston is not “a surrounding community”.

That solves their Boston problem I guess. Baahaaha

(They try not to disagree you know, McHugh insists upon it. How’s that for due process and independent minded commissioners?)

The law requires that cities and towns designated a “surrounding” community” be compensated by the casino.

The law also orders the Commission to identify each “surrounding community” and gives it the authority to set the compensation figure when agreements can’t be reached for whatever reasons.

So the Commission moved the goal post in Wynn’s favor yesterday. Just another set of facts and more counts in the law suits coming from all the losing interests if you ask me.

Rather than moving forward to decide a fair payment the Fantastic Four unanimously voted to remove Boston’s designation as a surrounding community. That means no money for Boston. Big deal!

What it really means is the Commission is so ready to award the license to Steve Wynn before real shit hits the fan. Coming up next I suspect we will see a vote giving the license to “Shirley Ave Steve” for a casino in the Mayberry of Massachusetts we call Everett. Determining an amount of money for Boston would have slowed down the process.

Boston was becoming a real drag on The Man.

The trick is to get the license in Wynn’s hands early enough so he’s positioned best to fight the upcoming referendum. And of course before more road bombs explode And they will.

Win or lose, big pay-outs to downtown law firms on this one.

BTW, I can’t find this story in the Globe? I’m sure it’s in there. Who are they carrying water for on this?

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/gaming-commission-came-step-closer-yesterday-to-handing-steve-wynn-a-gaming-license/feed/3Attention BMG Editors, Please Suspend Christopher and JConway for Spreading Lies on BMG to Stifle Free Speechhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/attention-bmg-editors-please-suspend-christopher-and-jconway-for-spreading-lies-on-bmg-to-stifle-free-speech/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/attention-bmg-editors-please-suspend-christopher-and-jconway-for-spreading-lies-on-bmg-to-stifle-free-speech/#commentsThu, 07 Aug 2014 17:29:56 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71256Yes siree. I had to sit down and rest after reading their comments accusing me of habitually breaking the two posts per day blog. Hold on, I have to talk to my kid’s shrink. You have no idea how upsetting this has been.

Okay I’m back.

This is my second blog today.

Let’s review shall we.

Yesterday one post.

Tuesday four posts. ( four posts. Wow that’s a lot of posts. I see their point. Who cares? Fuck em) That’s one day the rule was broken. Proceed.

Monday one post

Sunday two posts

Saturday one post

Thursday two posts

Wednesday one post

Shall I go on?

Needless to say this has been very traumatic on family and me. I expect satisfaction. Nothing short of a suspension for these two scoundrels is in order.

Wait a second. I like having conway around. He means well. So just get rid of Christopher. In fact make Christopher serve his suspension then give him the one conway should have received on top.

You’ll get back to me on this, right?

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/attention-bmg-editors-please-suspend-christopher-and-jconway-for-spreading-lies-on-bmg-to-stifle-free-speech/feed/19Is The Globe’s Pimping for Artie T. As Obvious To You as Sal DiMasi’s Pimping for Cognos Was To Deval or Am I Wrong? There’s a History of Blackmail Herehttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/71219/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/71219/#commentsThu, 07 Aug 2014 16:05:52 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71219Where’s the DISSENT? Weird, don’t you think?

Want to see more great evidence of The Boston Globe being in the bag for Artie T.? Well, read this. Okay, got that? It’s today’s Globe telling us that Hannafords is negotiating to buy the majority shares of Market Basket. Also repeats the possibility that Artie T. could buy it but the hate is so deep his cousins would never sell. It does allude to a possible rift within his side. Its’ sort of cryptic but I give them credit for bringing it up.

Perhaps Jack Demoulas. He is an Artie family member with a big job at Market Basket who recently came out and told the workers that doing what they are doing is the wrong way to go. Funny how that didn’t get much play, aye?

Now read this. A New York Times article from Monday. Here’s an interesting piece of factual reporting the Globe never seems to mention:

Despite owning nearly half the company, they said, Arthur T. Demoulas is the only bidder who needs financing to buy it. (Other suitors include national supermarket chains and big investment firms.) But potential lenders are wary of providing financing to him until the stores are up and running.

Todays” Quiz: What has two thumbs and has warned about the necessity of Artie T having to finance over a billion dollars to pull this off and the effects that brings with it?

Now check out this line from the editorial in-the-in-bag-for-Arthur-T.-Boston-Globe today:

IT’S BECOME increasingly clear that there’s only one way for the Market Basket crisis to end: by bringing back deposed CEO Arthur T. Demoulas to lead the employees in rebuilding the firm. If the board remains unwilling to make the move, even in the face of disastrously declining revenues, other business leaders and Governor Patrick should step in to help negotiate an end to the standoff.

Wrong! IT’S BECOME increasingly clear that the place is never going to run by Artie T. again and the workers should use what leverage they have negotiating a good deal for themselves. Like no changes in salaries, benefits, and hours.

That’s the only thing clear to me.

I’m sure all of you have read the facts in the Supreme Judicial Court opinions from 2008 disbarring two of Artie T.’s lawyers. I linked to them the other day so no excuses?

Easy read that left you begging for more, right? I know.

Okay, I’ll link to them again for the few who haven’t had the opportunity.

Blackmail ladies a gentleman. Blackmail. Paid for and orchestrated by Arthur T. Demoulas. That’s what these cases detail. The person blackmailed wasn’t some wealthy relative. It was a young struggling lawyer who law clerked for Judge Lopez during the trial. They secretly taped him saying nothing worth anything though Artie T. thought it was. Artie’s well paid private detectives also knew there was lawyer whom the kid never met but submitted a letter on his behalf to the Board of Bar Overseers vouching for his ethics. A requirement in getting a ticket to practice law.

After they told the kid he was being blackmailed those hired by Artie to follow him were concerned he could commit suicide. This stuff is all in the facts sections of the two opinions. Easy reads.

Then to show they meant business they did stuff like disguise as a henchman/pizza delivery guy and pretend to deliver an unordered to the house thus freaking him out more. Then of course have an intimidating private eye sit outside the house all day long scaring the bejesus out of his wife.

This kid didn’t have a pot to piss in and Artie T. took advantage of it because although ordered by the court he was determined to never turn over the controlling interest to his cousins.

How many Market Basket employees have half a pot to piss in? Other than those with 30, 40, and 50 years of service who are conveniently throwing themselves on the sword how many employees are willing to sacrifice for Artie T. and how many are feeling extreme pressure to say they will too?

So folks, I ask you again. Do you think there is some dirty money being floated amongst the media?

Why is there no dissent? Weird if you ask me.

When the new company takes over it well be like when you see a few trucks pull in front of house and in 7 minutes the lawn is mowed, leaves rakes, mulch is down, hedges cut, everything swept clean and they’re gone. Like magic.

That’s what’s going to happen to the protesters, the employees, and the stores. No protesters, none of those creepy Artie T. cult of personality signs on the store windows, shelves stocked with the freshest produce and dairy, no long check-out lines, and 99% of the customers that were shopping there before.

Artie T. may want to head out of town and fast when this happens. All those naive and easily fooled employees who bought into his bullshit, or his walking around money, will be totally screwed.

Think about it. Right now. I mean right now. Like exactly now as you are reading this. Wives of Market Basket employees are cross-examinatining there husbands on their future. How much does that suck for they husband right now. (yes I know this is sexist, but it is what it is) All this aggravation will be taken out on Artie T. eventually if the new guys don’t give them their jobs back. Not Arthur S. but Artie T.

Boycotts ain’t gonna work then my friends.

Anyway, back to the Globe and it’s pimping for Artie T.

It’s so easy to see it reminds of Deval smelling a rat when Sal DiMasi kept bringing up the computer contract the state was bidding out and pumping the company that was sending him a monthly check.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/71219/feed/17Anyone Else Find It Bizarre How Committed and United Boston Media is to Arthur T. Getting His Job Back? No Dissent, Why?http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/anyone-find-it-bizarre-how-committed-to-arthur-t-s-fight-to-get-his-job-back-no-dissent-why/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/anyone-find-it-bizarre-how-committed-to-arthur-t-s-fight-to-get-his-job-back-no-dissent-why/#commentsThu, 07 Aug 2014 01:03:12 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71192When a company’s labor force stops reporting to work because the board of directors fired a beloved CEO who btw was found to be disobeying board directives and wrongfully appropriating company funds shouldn’t we expect to see some dissent from the local media? Some dissent from business columnists perhaps?

The barrage of Op Ed pieces regurgitating the same reasons why Artie T. must stay and chanting the illogical truism that only Artie T. can stop this downslide is great evidence that the Globe operates as one big bag job.

What’s worse according to the Globe? Being against Artie T. or against a cure for cancer?

Those who are paying attention have questions about this mess, but fortunately foe the Globe it plays to the Jerry Springer crowd who also listen to NPR so they have the idiot proletariat partially buying in. Easy prey for the hypocritical propagandists.

Shouldn’t we expect a business columnists or two taking the capitalist view, the rights of shareholders, the job of the CEO, Artie T’s documented history of unethical tactics? Shouldn’t a pundit or two question why the workers aren’t demanding their hours, salaries, and benefits not change with the new CEOs rather than falling on their swords demanding the return of the old boss?

Why don’t we see anyone ask if it is proper for the workers and Artie T. to spin this as disaster they did not create but can stop?

Wouldn’t you like to see a story or two on the need for financing for Artie T. to buy the company and how that could affect operations?

About a month ago Joan Vennochi raised a question or two about Arthur T.s That was it.

The Wall Street Journal questioned the legend of Artie T. and questioned the integrity of Boston’s scribes.

Let this be a fine example of what I have been bitching and moaning about for 900 plus posts. Boston’s media is made up of small time thinkers trying just to fit in by keeping their heads down and plagiarizing the thoughts of those they need to please.

And a few must be on the take.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/anyone-find-it-bizarre-how-committed-to-arthur-t-s-fight-to-get-his-job-back-no-dissent-why/feed/12Don’t Look Now Ladies and Gents But This Market Basket Thing Is About to Get Real Ugly – Oh and Add Shirley Leung to the List of Globe Hackshttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/dont-look-ladies-and-gents-this-market-basket-thing-is-about-to-get-real-ugly/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/dont-look-ladies-and-gents-this-market-basket-thing-is-about-to-get-real-ugly/#commentsWed, 06 Aug 2014 03:38:05 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71156You ever see a little kid happy as a pig in shit and looking cute as a piglet in shit, sitting on the couch in feety pajamas watching his favorite cartoon? Living in the moment. It doesn’t get much better than this.

Then BAM! The kid goes berserk. Complete meltdown. Screaming, kicking, punching, biting, and telling his mother he hates her. He puts up a battle that every MMA fighter couldn’t help but respect. I’s a fight he can’t win of course?

What caused this? Two words my friend, two word. “Bed” and “time” say them together.

Suddenly you go from wanting to eat the kid up to wanting to beat the kid up. What a little prick you think. You don’t care how old he is, how cute he can be, or how close you are to his parents. Screw that, someone duct tape him from head to toe and stick him on the back porch. He’s a loud and obnoxious asshole and Monday Night Football’s about to start.

Anyhoo Market Basket Employees have been told it’s bedtime by a babysitter they thought they could control. The thuggish personalities of the movement’s leaders will be showcased as more and more employees either lose their jobs or see the writing on the wall and go back to work.

Heavy pressure from more aggressive employees supporting the cause will cause further splits and Arthur T. will watch as it collapse around him and his money can’t save him.

IMHO

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Hey Shirley Leung. You are going to go far at the Globe. You keep churning out crap like this McGrory may want to watch his back. You could have his job.

Shirley’s piece did a nice job of fooling readers into believing Artie T. has leverage. Steven Syre did the something yesterday.

See how it works? The narrative has been decided and everyone falls in line. The Globe business page fooling people into believing Arthur T. has a legitimate business beef. To keep their jobs the Globe’s top business columnists are promoting text book communism by strongly suggesting the industrialists hand their businesses over to “the workers” who have congregated en masse outside their factories.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/dont-look-ladies-and-gents-this-market-basket-thing-is-about-to-get-real-ugly/feed/26At Best There Were Three Thousand People at Market Basket Rally Today. At Best! See For Yourselfhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/at-best-there-were-three-thousand-people-at-market-basket-rally-today-at-best-see-for-yourself/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/at-best-there-were-three-thousand-people-at-market-basket-rally-today-at-best-see-for-yourself/#commentsTue, 05 Aug 2014 21:00:39 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71140Time for Artie T. to tell these poor people to go back to work and continue to fight in spirit

I try but fail trying to embedded this pic areal pic of today’s rally. But go ahead and count the bodies. Do the grid thing. Guesstimate.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/at-best-there-were-three-thousand-people-at-market-basket-rally-today-at-best-see-for-yourself/feed/0Duped DeMoulas Devotees Deny D-Day Doom Despite Distinct Devastating Developments – Hubris, Artie T. Has It, I Don’t – Grossman’s Mom – Must Read Linkshttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/duped-demoulas-devotees-deny-d-day-doom-despite-distinct-devastating-developments-hubris-artie-t-has-it-i-dont-grossmans-mom-must-read-links/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/duped-demoulas-devotees-deny-d-day-doom-despite-distinct-devastating-developments-hubris-artie-t-has-it-i-dont-grossmans-mom-must-read-links/#commentsTue, 05 Aug 2014 15:05:35 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71122First up the must read links. Three of them. Two are MA Supreme Judicial Court opinions and one is a Board of Bar Overseers decision. Each one adds more insight to the man known as Arthur T. It’s better than any summer reading you’re now into. Trust me on this. Don’t be intimidated because they’re court cases. Scroll down to the facts sections and enjoy.

Note: I think it would behoove Market Basket employees, their loved ones, and those who depend on them to take a peek at these.

Actually D-Day is the wrong theater. Today is more like A-Bomb day for the Japanese. As in, “You better quit what you’re doing. Look at this thing we have. Look at at! Are you kidding me? So stop it. This Rising Sun stuff just ain’t gonna cut it. Okay?”

In response (to be spoken in bad over the top Japanese accent). Oh, don’t you listen to those lying round eyes evil bastards. We will WIN!!!!! Keep Fighting!!!’

Even after Hiroshima the message still wasn’t received.

Whether you agree with the bombing or not it was an obvious and ready solution for our self-preservation. Dropping the bomb was the easy part btw.

And that’s what Arthur S. and his friends will be doing this week. They’ve been holed up doing the Manhattan Project thing and now they’re gonna execute the obvious course of action.

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Good for Grossman’s mom. This will help him. Guarantee it. Could you imagine if Marty Walsh’s mom or Felix Arroyo had the dough to d\this for there kids? Holy moly.

The fact of the matter is that Steve’s Grossman a nice guy. A good guy. You hear that over and over from people who would have no problem saying he’s an asshole.

As a result he has the support of these pols around the state and with most of them is coming an organization to get out the vote and make primary day a nice upset.

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Hubris

BTW, did you read those court opinions yet? What? No! Get back there and read them and then come back to me.

Okay, hubris. Obviously Artie T. has a bad case of it. Willing to go to into a winless war believing he can win and destryoing his army in the process.

Thank God I don’t have that. If I did I’d say things like this:

Suppose you were following the big local political story of the week and after digesting the facts as best you can from the mainstream media you are allowed to read only one commentary. Your choices are

David Bernstein

Paul McMorrow

Bruce Mohl

Kevin Cullen

Jack Sullivan

Margery Eagan

Peter Gelziniz

Jim Braude

Thomas Farragher

Yvonne Abraham

Larrry Harmon

Brian McGrory

A Globe Editorial

Ernie Boch, III

Who would you read?

Man, I am so glad I don’t have the type of ego that could destroy a person.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/duped-demoulas-devotees-deny-d-day-doom-despite-distinct-devastating-developments-hubris-artie-t-has-it-i-dont-grossmans-mom-must-read-links/feed/5Has Boston Media Been “Literally” Bought By Arthur T. Demoulas? Statistically Something Ain’t Righthttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/has-arthur-d-demoulas-literally-and-i-mean-literally-bought-the-support-of-our-local-media-statistics-say-something-wrong/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/has-arthur-d-demoulas-literally-and-i-mean-literally-bought-the-support-of-our-local-media-statistics-say-something-wrong/#commentsTue, 05 Aug 2014 04:14:58 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71091I have to ask it. Arthur D. has a history of playing to win at any price with an ethics and legalities be damned offensive strategy. Right now I’ve only seen two op-eds and maybe two news pieces raising questions of the appropriateness, legality, and sincerity of Team Arthur T.

One of these Op-eds was in the Wall Street Journal and it ended with a blunt criticism of our local media.

[It]pays to look under the hood, which some of the Boston media might have bothered to do before turning the Demoulas battle into a good guy vs. bad guy corporate morality tale.

I’m not talking about the multi-million dollar circus being run at of Larry Rasky’s office that fills every caller to Dan Rea, and on-line comments in Globe, Herald, and Lowell Sun with the same chants while maintaining a on-going line with editors, writers, TV/Radio types, and politicians pushing the cause while on top of that providing a steady stream of Market Basket employees, former employees and customers declaring allegiance to Arthur T.

Something fishy here. Think about it. Before this all started the new CEOs had not announced nor indicated any lay-offs or salary/benefit reductions. Other than making broad assumptions from the two new executives’ resumes there is nothing other than speculation, perhaps educated speculation but no difference, that the company will be run into the ground.

Wouldn’t reasonable people wait for a more specific event before risking their family’s security by walking off their job because the big big bosses replace the big boss? And shouldn’t an independent media be asking that same question and many more?

Right now the employees saying Arthur S. created this mess and they should bring back Arthur T. to straighten it out. Obvious to the world however, that the mess was and is caused by employees not showing up for work so their argument is illogical if not extortion.

Yet Artie T.’s narrative goes unquestioned in the press.

What’s going on here? Statistically I mean. Thousands of employees say they worship him like Gandhi when in reality he’s Gotti. Very few crossing the line.

Now, in the law suit where Arthur T. was found to have conspired with his father Telemachus to defraud Arthur S.’s side of 50% of the stock Arthur T. used millions to orchestrate private investigators and corrupt lawyers to take-out the judge sitting on the case. Three lawyers were disbarred. (Not suspended, disbarred. Huge difference).

Arthur T.’s laissez faire attitude with his money and troops in his family war is notorious and worth knowing by anyone reporting on this farce. Yet even when they report the history they sugar coat it.

So I ask you, when we see 99%.99 of the media supporting Arthur T. as if it were as obvious as supporting our boys in World War II isn’t it reasonable to ask questions?

You know what? It is not illegal for media types to take a few bucks on the side to “keep it honest”.

You know what else? Arthur T. buys his way out of shit.

I heard one knucklehead who shall remain nameless (JIm Braude) suggest that Arthur S. wants the company so he can send it into bankruptcy to spite Arthur S.

hey Jim, I have a better idea. Run the business as good as or better than Arthur T. or sell out to anyone but Arthur T. rather than biting off your nose to spite your face. (Can you believe the shitty public radio station WGBH is giving this moron another hour of air time. Don’t get me going.)

Anyway, if the facts of this case were reported fairly it would cause much more derision on the subject among the media, the employees, and the public. Instead they are playing along with Artie T. in hypnotizing the employees into believing they can’t lose. (That’s what Artie T. has them thinking so if they don’t join in they are in troube when he gets the company back)

I’m tellin’ you people there’s money being made out there and I’m not talking about Rasky and the lawyers. Something ain’t right. Like a cluster that scientists see and then say, “hey, there’s something going on here. Let’s get a grant and see what it is.”

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/has-arthur-d-demoulas-literally-and-i-mean-literally-bought-the-support-of-our-local-media-statistics-say-something-wrong/feed/16Boston Globe Is Doing Another Round of Buyouts, Who Should Go? – The Arthur T. DeMoulas’s Attorney’s Disbarment Decision Reads Like a John LeCarre Novel With Artie T. Staring as Mr. Sinisterhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/globe-is-doing-another-round-of-buyouts-who-should-go-the-arthur-t-demoulas-gary-crossen-disbarment-decision-reads-like-a-john-lecarre-novel/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/globe-is-doing-another-round-of-buyouts-who-should-go-the-arthur-t-demoulas-gary-crossen-disbarment-decision-reads-like-a-john-lecarre-novel/#commentsMon, 04 Aug 2014 18:02:08 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71057So the new and improved Boston Globe just announced another round of buyouts. It costs money to take a step forward and then two backward when you’re rockin’ it with up and comers like Thomas Farraghar. Talk about using the new boss’s money to get the old gang back together. Even room for some drinking buddies like Margery Eagan.

Question. Do these buy outs help or hurt David Bernstein’s chances of getting a Globe gig? Does Clearing out the deadwood make room for him or are they not hiring? As I’ve said before David might as well wear a sandwich board in front of the Globe asking for a job.

So who should take the buyout? Eddie in the press room? Marcy in H.R.? Angelo in accounting has been on record wishing he took the last one, so he may be a gonna.

What about the names we know? That’s what I’m wondering. The Frank Phillips? The Adrian Estes? (the Ray Fitzgeralds and Dick Sinnotts.) Scot Lehigh perhaps? What about the all white ivy leaguers known as the Globe Editorial Board?

Any thoughts on this out there?

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If you want to see the sinister and selfish nature of Arthur T. DeMoulas I suggest you read the facts portion of the Supreme Judicial Court’s decision disbarring his attorney Gary Crossen.

Pay particular attention to Arthur T.’s role. It’s a great read. Like a spy novel.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/globe-is-doing-another-round-of-buyouts-who-should-go-the-arthur-t-demoulas-gary-crossen-disbarment-decision-reads-like-a-john-lecarre-novel/feed/5Arthur T. DeMoulas Blinked Tonight. Check Out The Globe’s Take on It Plus A Quizhttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/arthur-t-demoulas-blinked-tonight-check-out-the-globes-take-on-it-plus-a-quiz/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/arthur-t-demoulas-blinked-tonight-check-out-the-globes-take-on-it-plus-a-quiz/#commentsMon, 04 Aug 2014 03:33:01 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71023Arthur T. DeMoulas had a p.r. guru from Larry Rasky’s office release a statement tonight saying he would be glad to go back to his old job and get the store up to standards if the board 1. did not go through with tomorrow’s firings and 2. negotiated to sell 51.5% of the company to him.

Arthur T.’s statement ratchets up pressure on rival shareholders to take action by offering himself as an immediate solution to the company’s rapidly crumbling fortunes.

Actually it ratchets up the case for extortion and unclean hands while sounding at the same time like someone starting to realize he made a losing bet and is desperately trying to cut losses without showing his hand.

Trouble for him the board is holding a royal straight flush. Nothing beats that. Capiche?

Anyway here’s a pop quiz. Which of the following people have the worst chance at getting their old jobs back.

A. Aaron Hernandez

B. Tom Menino

C. Arthur T. DeMoulas

While you’re thinking about that I want to contemplate what the 30 something, 40 something, and 50 something spouses are saying to Market Basket employees right now who plan on sticking with Arthur T. Most of these people btw are sticking with him because they have been fooled into believing he will win. They are convinced of it.

Mention to them the possibility of losing. “It ain’t gonna happen brother.”

Just like Eric Cantor.

So they don’t consider the down side. LIke unemployment followed by mortgage foreclosure followed by family moving to Alabama where word is there are some good supermarket jobs.

But tomorrow’s election day for the employees. How sure are they? Nothing personal to these people but they do not have hard to find skills regardless of the “Market Basket Culture”. Air traffic controllers were replaced without missing a beat. Major League Baseball used the umpires walkout to fire them all and then bring back the ones that didn’t suck.

Ans. to Quiz. C. Arthur D. DeMoulas of course. Aaron Hernandez could be found not guilty and then every NFL team will lining up to sign him. Tom Menino can always run for mayor again. Look at Jerry Brown.

And trust me on this, once the goods are put back on the shelves and prices still beat the competitors (maybe not by as much) the customers will return and soon they will forget all about it.

Here’s a quick quiz for you but I’m not providing the answers. More of a rhetorical quiz. Tell me when the last baseball, football, basketball, and hockey strikes were, what was said about the loss of fan base, and how did they do bouncing back?

As long as Market Basket prices and quality do not significnatly change they will have customers.

Update: Sometime around midnight the Market Basket board issued a response. It said nothing. Did not accept Arthur T.’s generous offer to return the job he was fired from but did say it doesn’t mind hearing recommendations from shareholder as they try to work through the mess.

Nothing in their at all for Arthur T. to feel good about. The -in-Arthur-T.’s-back-pocket-Boston-Globe however, plays it like the board is ready to work something out with Artie T.

Really folks, the Globe is very transparent if one pays attention. And that’s not a good thing when you’re a major league fraud like The Globe.

]]>http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/arthur-t-demoulas-blinked-tonight-check-out-the-globes-take-on-it-plus-a-quiz/feed/16Yvonne Abraham and Globe Story on Satch and Max Enlighten Us to Globe Tacticshttp://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/yvonne-abraham-and-globe-story-on-satch-and-max-enlighten-us-to-globe-tactics/
http://bluemassgroup.com/2014/08/yvonne-abraham-and-globe-story-on-satch-and-max-enlighten-us-to-globe-tactics/#commentsSun, 03 Aug 2014 17:15:37 +0000eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iiihttp://bluemassgroup.com/?p=71001Today’s Globe has a few examples of persuasive/propaganda “journalism” that I’d like to point out.

First up we have Yvonne Abraham going after the PAC paying for an attack ad on Coakley regarding her gun stance. Fair enough. Knocking these PACs, which a new law will clamp down on, are the the flavor of the month. No problem.

But check out Yvonne whistling by the important issue raised in the ad. Coakley’s stance on gun control.

Now, it is mystifying that Coakley doesn’t support limiting gun purchases, which research shows reduces gun trafficking. “There is no good public policy reason not to limit bulk sales,” says John Rosenthal, founder of Stop Handgun Violence.

Wouldn’t a coherent sentence or two informing the reader of Coakley’s reasons for opposing these gun control measures been a “journalistic” requirement for this piece?

Is this the best she has to knock Grossman? It’s obvious the piece really isn’t about the PAC but an excuse to kick Grossman in the balls. No problem with that. But really, without an explanation from Martha on on her position, I suspect it is such a specious argument that her friends can’t repeat it with a straight face.

The reason she’s against it btw is because she’s in with the cop crowd. They’re the biggest gun nuts out there.

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There was another article in the Globe today that has been a long time coming. Basically it said “yeah, Boston has it’s problems with racism but you know what we are by no means the worst.’

Here’s a tidbit from the story quoting former Celtic Cedric Maxwell.

“I don’t think Boston has a monopoly on racism in the United States, but the perception is that Boston is the most racist around and that’s not the case,” he said.

The stigma is tied to protests and rioting after the court-ordered desegregation of Boston’s public schools, which was carried out by forced busing.

One thing in the story caught my eye. Another false tid bit in Boston history the Globe threw in to help the narrative that Boston is full of racist white knuckleheads.

The fact the Bill Russell didn’t get a statue until white Red Sox and Bruins players did.

Please don’t buy in to this like the Globe wants.

Here are the facts. The new owners of the Red Sox paid to have statue of Ted Williams on their property outside the park. This was what, ten years ago? Then after that the Bruins paid for a statue of Bobby Orr on their property. (A Canadian fan pointed out a defect in the statue’s design by simulating anal sex on it. Damn, they gut us on that one)

So because within a few recent years the Sox and B’s built statues to their heroes and the Celtics didn’t immediately follow suit Boston is a racist town.